Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

[Moritz Schulte <tux@gmx.li>]

Peter Jay Salzman <p@belial.ucdavis.edu> writes:

> i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole
> system to woody.

AFAIK, xfree86 isn't already official part of woody, but there are the
phase2 debs...

> can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a
> woody?   if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is:
> 
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1
> (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main

Since there are no Woody CDs, you can comment these cdrom lines out.

> deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
> deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US
> potato/non-US main contrib non-free

Oh, you don't have the security and proposed updates enabled, the
entrys (for potato) are:

deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dists/potato-proposed-updates/

> thanks; i really appreciate it!

Just change the "potato" in the ftp:// and fttp:// entries in your
sources.list to "woody".

Do it via dselect (Update, Select) or via 'apt-get update' and
'apt-get dist-upgrade'.

> ps- i downloaded and compiled my own kernel 2.4.0.  will that screw things
> up?

I don't think so, but I can't say it for sure.


	moritz
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