Re: safe to upgrade slink to potato?

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 26-Dec-1999 Tobias Zimpel wrote:
> 
> Well, I broke my system completely a few weeks ago with a simple
> (segfaulting)
> 'apt-get dist-upgrade' while I was running potato for months without serious
> problems. There was no chance to repair it; I couldn't even boot, and I
> didn't manage to repair it using a rescue disk. The only sollution was to
> install the whole system new from the scratch. :-(
> 
> But I'd say that potato is stable enough to use it without serious problems.

I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my laptop from
Slink to Potato.  If I understand correctly, you had to install a whole new
Potato system from scratch.  That is exactly what I want to avoid; I want to
upgrade the system I have now.

thanks

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Andrew