Re: Newbie upgrading
On Mon, 09 Jun 1997 16:43:14 +0200 "Miguel A. Arranz"
(mangel@merlin.fae.ua.es) wrote:
> I am a happy user of Debian-linux 1.2. So far I have regularly updated my
> system via dselect by ftp. However, I am not sure about how to upgrade to
> 1.3. I have two questions about it.
>
> 1. From the announcement notes it seems that I should upgrade first
> libc5 5.4.20-1 -> 5.4.23-6
> ldso 1.10-1 -> 1.10-2
> dpkg-ftp is up-to-date
> and once done, upgrade the usual way via dselect. Is it right or is it
> possible to upgrade it all directly with dselect?
You also need to upgrade dpkg by hand before firing up ddelect.
> 2. I do not know how to make a boot disk. In fact, I have NT installed on
> my first HD and Linux on the second one. Instead of getting LILO
> installed, I decided to start with boot disks. I would be very grateful if
> I could get some help with LILO too.
Use rawrite2 under NT or
dd if=<disk image> of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
under linux (where disk image is resc1440.bin, etc...)
Phil.
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