> > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:45:49PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > I've been using etch/testing on my laptop since the change over.. > > > > > > I would like to know of an easy way, short of a re-install, to > > revert > > > back to stable.
I've had a number of problems downgrading, and don't recommend it unless its absolutely necessary (ie; you're on a laptop with no removable HD's and you used to whole drive as one partition). I recently tried a move from testing to sarge, and it seemed to work (I used some pinning and changing repositories, if I recall) and worked for a little while until installing some new packages ended up giving me dependency hell. It worked fine, but I was unable to change the existing packages. > I think that this is the best option. If you haven't already, create a > separate partition for /home and you can be fairly sure that you will > not lose anything important if you need to re-install again. In retrospect, its a very good thing I've always had this habit. I like to keep /, /boot and /home on separate partitions (and also under different filesystems). I think of myself as quite an incompetent user (relatively new to Unix) and the number of times I'm caught out by something that a more experienced user would know not to do. -- www.gnu.org
