Re: How to upgrade to Potato via network with small hard disk
If it isn't much too small for the packages uninstall several of the
packages you currently have (preferably largish ones) using apt-get
remove, delete all that is currently in /var/cache/apt/archives apt-get
upgrade then delete /var/cache/apt/archives again and now apt-get
install the packages from the new distribution you deleted earlier.
Jeff
(well it worked for me on a laptop)
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 21-Aug-2000 Jeffrey Austen wrote:
> > How do I upgrade from Slink to Potato on a networked system with a small
> > hard disk? I am using apt-get to upgrade and there is not enough room in
> > /var/cache/apt/archives to download all the upgrade files at once. Is there
> > a way to upgrade in multiple steps so that I don't have to download all of
> > the packages at once? Apt-get tells me that there are 130 packages to be
> > upgraded plus 43 new.
>
> options:
>
> nfs mount a bigger drive (-:
>
> if /home or some other partition is big enough, point /var/cache/apt there
>
> use a public nfs mirror (yes, they do exist)
>
> submit a bug that apt handle this case better (or if there is a bug, send more
> info)
>
>
>
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