Help: Upgrade to Hamm failed !?

[Jan Speich <Jan.Speich@era.ericsson.se>]

Once upon a time I was running a nice stable system: Debian 1.3 with
Kernel 2.0.35 on a Pentium2
But then I needed PPP 2.3.5 and the "disaster" was born:

First I got the stupid I idea just to take the PPP 2.3.5 tar.gz follow
the instructions in the included
readme file and recompile the kernel. But the compiling errors and a
short view on the debian
page teached me that I would need libc6 for PPP 2.3.5.

So, I decided to get it all and to upgrade to Debian 2.0 (Hamm), which
,the package page promised,
would already include PPP 2.3.5.

Upgrading seamed to be quiet easy: Having a ftp connection to a mirror
site, knowing thhe path to
"hamm", running autoup.sh, moving wtmp file , truncate utmp file and
rebooting. (At least that was
what I kept in mind after reading the "autoupREADME".)

Everything went fine with these steps but I was suprised when I saw
while rebooting that
I was still running PPP 2.2.0. Well, I wasn't really suprised, as I
always thought PPP has
to be compiled into the kernel  and I didn't compile the kernel after
upgrading.

So, here is my first question:

    Question 1
    How do I install a package like a new PPP version or PPTP, as
dselect does not offer
    instlalling these things (or am I blind). A step by step guide would

be great.


O.K. the "disaster" goes on: I started "dselect" (don't remember the
actual reason but I found "splay" that I
wanted to have) when pressing RETURN to tell dselect that I have decided

what to take it showed me some
conflicts concerning libc5, libc5.dev? (sorry, don't remember the
details). I just pressed RETURN
(dselect help said, that by pressing RETURN I would accept dselects
proposal to solve the problem an
eberything would be fine) but I only could switch between the help page
and the page showing the conflict.
So I decide to stop this mess by pressing X.

As this problem didn't disapaer (How could it, I didn't change anything)

I decide to use dselects:
"Remove unwanted packages" to have a clean system.
But, Ooops, dselect removed more than I expected (sorry, don't remember
the details).
But one thing that I'm really missing is "ftp" especially as I use ftp
as dselects access method.
So here are some more questions:


    Question2
    How do I get back "ftp" (I'm still running Netscape with it's ftp)

    Question3
    Can I run autoup.sh just one more time or is there the risk to get
the system
    into an unstable state.

    Question4
    How do I know if I really managed to upgrade to hamm. (Any command
to the version)

    Question5
    Does anyone know what went wrong after, while upgrading to hamm.
What do I have to
    do to avoid this dselect conflict problem?


So, after all it isn't a real disaster, as the system is still up an
running but I still need PPP2.3.5...

Thanks in advance

    Jan


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