Re: Upgrading to potato

[Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>]

"jmmv" == jmmv  <jmmv@mail.com> writes:

jmmv> Hi all, I'm running 'apt-get distupgrade' to upgrade my slink
jmmv> to potato. But apt-get only gets debs, and what's about the base
jmmv> system (the tgz) ? How do I install it without losing
jmmv> data/configuration of my system ?

The "base system" is really just a collection of debs.  For the
initial install this has to be provided as a tar.gz, but for
dist-upgrading, you can simply install the newer debs.

		netgod




<mwr> Oh, and my /proc/kcore is over 50MB -- can I remove it and get
      back that disk space?
<calc> mwr, yea do that :P