James Caldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Using a Sarge net-install disc I set about the install process again > > Of course it is too late now, but: except for downgrades or totally > >hosed systems, there is no need to reinstall. Upgrading to sid or > >etch is as easy as adding the appropriate lines to your sources.list > >and 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. > If only it were that simple. I had been trying to avoid my original > email becoming too long, but prior to installing in the manner > described above I had tried to apt-get dist-upgrade two seperate > machines from Sarge to Sid.
The right way is to upgrade first from sarge to etch and then from etch to sid. sarge -> etch -> sid. This is the recommended way. You can't skip etch, if you do that - no wonder you encounter problems. > In both cases it choked on things like udev, dpkg, etc. I did it several times already. Last time was yesterday and it went flawlessly. > I found plenty of info on workarounds for these issues by googling but > they were all incredibly brute force workarounds to my way of thinking > and I simply wanted to try installing the system cleanly using Sid > sources from the start. That is strange. These upgrades should be pretty straightforward. Another case is for downgrading that is not supported, but can be performed using some "brutal force". > As I said, I have installed various linux distributions over the > years, and feel comfortable enough with the whole process that a clean > install doesn't phase me too much. Easy upgrade is one of the strengths of debian. It doesn't make sense not to use it. -- "We are all special cases." - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
