upgrading potato to woody with 3.0pre6 CDs

Dear All, I've tried to upgrade a Potato system to Woody using the 3.0pre6 version of Debian CDs, but it failed miserably. Here is what I've done: I commented out all lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, then ran 'apt-cdrom add' for the first four disks in the set. Then did apt-get update and t

Re: upgrading potato to woody with 3.0pre6 CDs

Michael Knoop wrote: > I had exactly the same problem. When I ran "apt-get --simulate install > dpkg apt debconf" it showed problem packages in square brackets after > packages it was "installing". Using this information, and stumbling around > for awhile, I finally found that running "apt-get