Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
Before getting to the steps below how would one go about getting around the issue of my Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard and Wireless Intellimouse Explorer not working in the install screens of 2.2_rev5. I can press enter at the boot: prompt when the CD boots up, but the first screen locks up. I thin

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:04:34 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 12:33pm Ron Johnson shared this with the class:: > > > One suggestion might be to do: > >apt-get -d dist-upgrade > >apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade > > > call me a n

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Scott Henson wrote: > > I really would not recomend installing potato then > > dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could > > never recomend that. > > How long ago, what went wrong, and did you report bugs? We put a lot of >

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:33:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:47:55 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade "apt-get --fix-broken > > --show-upgraded dist-upgrade" now three times in the past year; twice on

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
*** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 12:33pm Ron Johnson shared this with the class:: > One suggestion might be to do: >apt-get -d dist-upgrade >apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade > call me a newbie, but what would the exact lines be that someone should add to their sources.list file

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:47:55 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade "apt-get --fix-broken > --show-upgraded dist-upgrade" now three times in the past year; twice on > my own machine and twice on others, and have allways been successfu

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade "apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade" now three times in the past year; twice on my own machine and twice on others, and have allways been successful. The first time, dpkg couldn't preconfigure and I had to start installing packages on

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 22:04, Chris Kenrick wrote: > > What's the recommended approach for installing Woody > > these days? > > > > I really would not recomend installing potato then > dist-upgrading. Havi

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Scott Henson wrote: > I really would not recomend installing potato then > dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could > never recomend that. How long ago, what went wrong, and did you report bugs? We put a lot of effort into making upgrades to woody work well. -- see shy jo

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-06 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 22:04, Chris Kenrick wrote: > What's the recommended approach for installing Woody > these days? > I really would not recomend installing potato then dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could never recomend that. What I did is got some woody

Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-06 Thread Chris Kenrick
What's the recommended approach for installing Woody these days? Is is still best to install a minimal Potato then dist-upgrade, or is there a better way. - Chris __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News an