Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Peter Jay Salzman <p@belial.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a
>woody?   if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is:
[...]
>deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
>deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
>deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
>deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free

Change 'potato' in these four lines to 'woody', then 'apt-get update'
[1], 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.

[1] ... or 'dselect update' if you want dpkg's notion of available
    packages to be updated as well, which you probably do.

>ps- i downloaded and compiled my own kernel 2.4.0.  will that screw
>things up?

Nope, shouldn't matter. In fact, you should find things improving as
support for 2.4 kernels gets better.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]