Upgrading from slink to potato

[Manuel Arenaz Silva <arenaz@des.fi.udc.es>]

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Hello,

I want to upgrade my Debian Linux Box from slink to potato. I have got a

4-CD copy of the potato system. It was obtained from a Debian mirror
around 20th december 1999.

A friend of mine told me that upgrading to potato was as easy as:

1) Installing apt-cdrom via "dpkg --install <path>/apt-cdrom.<version>"
2) Running "apt-cdrom add" for each CD of the potato distribution. This
way apt updates its packages database.
3) Running "apt-get upgrade dist".

Nevertheless, I can't find the "apt-cdrom" package neither in any of the

four potato CD's nor in the www.debian.org  archives. What do I have to
do in order to install apt-cdrom? Are the options for dpkg correct? Do I

have to empty the apt database before doing step 2?

Thanks in advance,

             Manuel Arenaz



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