Re: new to debian...

["Matthew W. Roberts" <matt@frugal.org>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:56:39PM +0100, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> Just install in slink apt, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list so that apt can
> find potato (add a line http/ftp site potato main contrib non-free), and
> remove the 'stable' line. 
> 
> Now you do:
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
> and... when all goes well YOU HAVE POTATO (apt downloads automatic).

I'm on a slow connection so I'm using the -d option with apt-get.  
Should I run all of the above (starting with dist-upgrade) first with
the -d option and then run them again without to do the final
install?  e.g.

apt-get -d dist-upgrade
apt-get -d upgrade
apt-get -d dselect-upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dselect-upgrade

Or, would it be more like this:

apt-get -d dist-upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -d upgrade
apt-get upgrade
apt-get -d dselect-upgrade
apt-get dselect-upgrade