On 2008-12-17 20:14 +0100, Robert Hodgins wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 13:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> Are there step-by-step instructions somewhere for doing a dist- >> upgrade from Etch (current stable) to Lenny (soon-to-be stable)? >> >> I'll be glad to RTFM if somebody can point me to the right FM... > > Googling etch lenny upgrade gives ~143,000 hits.
It's not unlikely that Rick actually looked at some of these, and probably a bad sign that nothing even close to an official upgrade guide seems to exist yet. :-( > This one is recent: > http://www.ducea.com/2008/12/08/howto-upgrade-from-debian-etch-to-lenny/ Seems to be okay, if terse. One caveat, though: it has been reported several times (and I could reproduce it) that the "aptitude full-upgrade" step will remove all the X.Org video drivers if you accept aptitude's first suggestion, see http://bugs.debian.org/502285 for instance. Therefore I recommend to let aptitude try different solutions until it finds one that does not remove too many packages. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
