Re: upgrade vorm 1.3 to 2.1 ?
On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 08:34:28AM +0100, wolfgang.schwoerer@gefm.com wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I have a Debian 1.3 (bo) installed and now have a CD with the latest Debian 2.1
> (slink) which I want to install. The documentation delivered is fine at all -
> it tells me about new install and a upgrading procedure from Debian 2.0 to 2.1 -
> but nothing about upgrading from an older version. The question is, would that
> be possible, or do I need (or is it better) to make a new installation? I've
> read about 1.3 beeing based on "libc5" and 2.1 beeing based on "libc6" - what
> does it mean for upgrading?.
> Could anybody give some suggestions?
Look for a directory "upgrade-older-i386" on the CD. If it doesn't
exist, take a look at
/debian/dists/stable/main/upgrade-older-i386/README-upgrade at one of
the Debian mirrors.
Bob
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