Upgrading to "potato"

["David E. Young" <youngde@mindspring.com>]

Greetings. I am brand new to Debian, but a long-time Linux
user/administrator (mostly RedHat).

I've installed Debian 2.1 from CD onto my SPARC IPX; the process went
flawlessly and the system is running fine. I would like to try an
upgrade to the upcoming 2.2 release, primarily because I'd like the
experience of an ftp upgrade with dselect/apt.

I believe I've determined most of the proper steps; use dselect,
choose the "apt" option during "access", use the "frozen"
distribution, etc. However, I'd feel better if there was a
step-by-step guide to this process. For example, during the initial
installation of 2.1 I chose one of the standard configurations, then
augmented it with some additional networking stuff. I want to maintain
this identical configuration yet upgrade to 2.2. Will dselect handle
this for me, or will it try and install everything? Perhaps I should
use APT instead (apt-get dist-upgrade)?

I've checked some of the online documentation and perused the list
archives, but haven't run across anything definitive. Apologies if
I've overlooked something. Your guidance (and patience) is
appreciated.

Regards,

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