Re: Hi, I've installed woody on my Alphaserver, but the packages on it are quite old so I was looking for something a little more up to date, even if it's not that stable, that's ok. Going to the debian.org website for this, it was not immeiately clear to me which ISO's I needed to download, so

[Alexandre Fayolle <alexandre.fayolle@free.fr>]

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 12:12:56AM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed woody on my Alphaserver, but the
> packages on it are quite old so I was looking for
> something a little more up to date, even if it's not
> that stable, that's ok.
> 
> Going to the debian.org website for this, it was not
> immeiately clear to me which ISO's I needed to
> download, so I thought I'd ask here.
> 
> I've seen "sarge" mentioned, is this the latest? on
> the website I saw "sid" also mentioned, but couldn't
> find any link to download on that.
> 
> If you can assist that would be great, including a
> weblink if possible.


Don't dowload any iso, unless the machine you want to upgrade has no
network access. Instead, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and set it to use the
distribution you want. For instance, you could add the following line:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free

Then, as root, first run "apt-get update", then "apt-get dist-upgrade", 
and finally "apt-get moo" and enjoy the power of debian. :-)


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Alexandre Fayolle
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