Upgrade from an older Debian system ??
Hi,
Thanks to everyone willing to reply to (sometimes annoying ?)
questions ! I am not a newbee to Linux, but somewhere in between I
guess ...
My system is Debian 1.2 with kernel 2.0.27 and a pcmcia
3c562/563 33.6 LAN/modem card (Olivetti echos p100d).
Heaving read the Web page about upgrading to Debian 1.3 from an older
version I followed the dpkg-instructions there without any errors.
I had just installed pcmcia-cs 2.9.5-3. Before there was no pcmcia
package installed. Now I have trouble starting the PCMCIA Card
Services (it says: Card Services release does not match). The
/sbin/cardmgr dates April 29 and /lib/modules/2.0.27/pcmcia dates Dec
7 1996. Incompatible ?
So I cannot access the network for the moment.
Upgrading to Debian 1.3 and a new kernel maybe could resolve these
incompatibilities.
The only problem is that I do not know how to proceed despite the
advice given, that (using) dselect should do the rest of the upgrade
to Debian 1.3.
Up till now I have successfully upgraded the base-files package. For
this to succeed I had to copy the package to disk together with the
Packages-file of the distribution site. Now dselect shows a
"installed" and "available" status (I have done an update in dselect).
My old version of Debian came from a cdrom.
What should I do now ? Which packages should I install and which not?
If I use the Packages-file from the distribution site, then I must
upgrade all my packages ? Ot could I have a mix of them ?
Without having an internet connection it is practically impossible to
copy all those packages one by one --> floppy --> disk.
Regards,
Marc
e-mail:Marc.Fleureck@cmlag.fgov.be
Ministry of Agriculture, Belgium (land of chips (patates frites +
electronic ones) chocolate, beer ... )
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