Re: Installing Debian sarge (beta4) on Cobalt

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> [2004-05-07 13:56]:
> > > I have a RaQ2 that already has woody installed.  I assume if I follow these
> > > instructions, everything I already have on the box is going to get whacked?
> > > Any ideas on how to upgrade (besides back it up first?).
> > 
> > Hey, it is a Debian system!
> > 
> > Adjust /etc/apt/sources.list
> > and
> >  apt-get update
> >  apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> Basically, yes, but I'm not sure about the kernel.  There were some
> incompatible changes related to kernel/libc, so you might have to
> upgrade the kernel first.  Thiemo?

To force the kernel upgrade, reboot and then do the glibc upgrade seems
to work for all people who tried it. Note that there is no really clean
way to handle this, so no guarantees about it. :-)


Thiemo