Re: impatient upgrage question
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:44:36AM +0200, balayo@mindspring.com was only
escaped alone to tell thee:
> I have a fresh, minimal slink on my box. While it's still
> minimal, I'd like to upgrade it to potato. Should I go ahead
> and wait till potato is released?
NO. :) You might have to do a bare minimum of tweaking, but I had a full
slink here and an Adaptec SCSI-II card that has needed a custom kernel in
the past and I can say that, slow modem aside, it was relatively painless.
Think of it this way. A, you need the latest software, B, Debian needs
guinea p^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbeta testers.
> anyway, can someone run down the steps to upgrading? What
> should I put in sources.list? I should be able to replace the
> "frozen" in the url to "stable" whenever the time is right,
> right?
I have had great luck with the following:
deb ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com:/.1/linux/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main
ftp.freesoftware.com is the Linuxy side of the BSD-aligned ftp.cdrom.com.
It is about three time as fast as ftp.us.debian.org. You need this speed,
I'm sure. When you're mostly upgraded, you can point to debian.org again for
the VERY latest.
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