Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-10 Thread David Millet
thank you very very much to everybody that has helped me out with my upgrade problems, i'm going to give all your advice a try this morning. should be fun! david -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-09 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:13:20AM -0700, David Millet wrote: > they said that the stable debian might be a little outdated and i didnt > listen. but they were right! it installed well, it was stable, but it > was outdated. and me, being the kind of guy that will spend the extra > $10,000 fo

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread wsa
Don't take my word for it, i still consider myself a noob and probably will always do:) But i have been running debian for a long time now, my experience with testing is it sometimes can take a long time for a package to get updated, so if something is broke you can end up being stuck with it fo

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread BruceG
- Original Message - From: "David Millet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:13 PM Subject: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system > so hi, its me the debian noob

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread David Millet
huh? am i hearing your right? Stable is very stable...i'm learning to live with it now since last week's mess i had with SID. Stable for my DVR/imap/samba sever, SID/winXP on the desktop beast...so if SID goes bonkers on me i just go back to winXP for a few days and then run an apt update which

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread wsa
I think as you say all you have to do, or at least that's how i did it a few times is, update your sources list and point to testing aswell, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade. Seems a whole lot better than downloading 2 iso's again. Stable is very stable...i'm learning to live with it now sinc

got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-08 Thread David Millet
so hi, its me the debian noob again, already breaking my oath to not bug you folks too much with my issues, but oh well, i'd appreciate some help anyways. they said that the stable debian might be a little outdated and i didnt listen. but they were right! it installed well, it was stable, but