Re: Upgrading to testing
Find backports to sarge to just upgrade only your kernel and not all the system.
Good luck
On 3/31/06, Sam Varghese <sam@gnubies.com> wrote:
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> I am running Sarge at the moment but would like to upgrade to testing. I
> have been using the 64-bit version for just two weeks. I have run
> testing for about two years on a 32-bit box.
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> The first time I tried an upgrade, it broke due to Xorg. I couldn't fix
> it no matter what I tried so I reinstalled. Now I am dead scared to
> upgrade - but I need to do so in order to get my nForce-based sound card
> working as the module for the card is only available in the kernel
> images in etch.
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> Having read some help pages, I think the following will help me check if
> things will break again:
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> Change sources.list to testing
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> Run apt-get -s update, then run apt-get -s dist-upgrade
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> Then if there are no messages about incompatibilities, go ahead and do
> the real thing.
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> Can someone tell me if this is the right path to take?
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> Thanks,
> Sam
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