Re: [debian-knoppix] Installing Koppix, and then migrating to mainstream Debian?
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:31:45AM -0500, stan wrote:
> I'm getting a new laptop at work. I've booted the exact same hardware with
> the Knoppix ISO image, and everything "just works", well except for the
> Winmodem, but I got that working under FreeBSD, so it should be possible
> under Linux.
>
> In any case, what I would like to do, is take advantage of Knoppix's
> superior auto detection/configuration of hardware. So the broad general
> plan is:
>
> 1. Boot Knoppix CD
> 2. run knx-hdinstall
> 3. edit /etc/apt/sources.list as appropriate
> 4. apt-get update
> 5. apt-get dist-upgrade.
>
> I tried this (without editing sources.list, and wound up with a badly
> broken installation. X did not even star :-(
>
> What am I missing?
You should decide from which branch you want to update. If you want to stay
in "stable", you have to remove all unstable/testing packages before
updating.
Otherwise, try
apt-get -t unstable upgrade
or only update packages manually.
/etc/apt/apt.conf is set up to update from "testing" only, which will
only work if there are no unresolved dependencies. Especially gnome2
and KDE3.1 is very troublesome to upgrade, and never worked for me
without manual interaction either.
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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