Re: Question about upgrading to version 2.2

[Dean <destruss@rconnect.com>]

If you don't have apt-get then
I'd use dselect which will ask
which source to download from
so you can enter your new urls
which will change /etc/apt/source.list
automatically. If I remember correctly
dselect will automatically select all
packages reflected in your new source
list and upgrade. hth  Dean

Matthew Dalton wrote:
> 
> Dean wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter:
> >  I'd try removing them. try:
> > apt-get remove (package)
> 
> I'm not sure that Debian 2.0 has apt-get.
> 
> Read
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
> Section 3.3 deals with upgrading from Debian 2.0.
> 
> To be honest though, I'd wipe the 2.0 installation and start over. If
> the hardware hasn't been changed since 1997, its bound to be better
> supported by now.
> 
> > Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> 
> > > I really don't want to install from scratch, as I only have five
> > > days available for this attempt, and it took two weeks to get the GUI
> > > part working last time. That black and white console screen starts
> > > getting old after a while...
> 
> Your hardware (what is it?) is more likely to be supported now, so maybe
> you won't need the 5 days.
> 2.2 is a decent step up from 2.0, though. It's likely that all of your
> packages would get upgraded. You might spend 5 days just downloading
> 
> Matthew