Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

> Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't rememb

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

> Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't rememb

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

> Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't remember

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

Yasir Assam wrote: > Will doing 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade' install the > default kernel? Will it leave mine in the GRUB menu at least? Doing a dist-upgrade will NOT upgrade the kernel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

Yasir Assam wrote: > Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). > > The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian t

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:58:00PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: > Thanks you all for your replies. > > It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get > more confident about what I'm doing). > Update to stable. Do it gradually, taking ten or twenty packages at a time and resolv

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

Thanks you all for your replies. It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get more confident about what I'm doing). The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't remember the nam

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

Yasir Assam wrote: Hello, I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before the 3.1 release). Specifically I installed a snapshot dated 30 April 2005. When I installed it the following lines were added to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sar

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:54:57PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote: > Hello, > > I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before > the 3.1 release). [...] > I now have broadband and would like to upgrade to the Unstable dist. > What's the best way of doing this? I would recomm

Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:54:57 +1100 Yasir Assam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free Assuming that's an official mirror. Easy to check. > Is it safe just to issue the following command? > > $ apt-get upgrade You probably want dist-upgr

Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable

Hello, I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution (before the 3.1 release). Specifically I installed a snapshot dated 30 April 2005. When I installed it the following lines were added to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapsh