RE: Going down the Rabbit Hole (was: apt-get sources.list question)
--- William De Cat <william.decat@advalvas.be> wrote:
> Personnaly, I install the base system from an old
> CD, then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the
> distribution I want and then do an "apt-get dist-
> upgrade".
I have done that, and have finally upgraded to Woody.
Right now I'm having a bit of a problem dialing up.
Must be a change to pon or diald.
> However, the primary servers may be slow, so I
> recommend using other servers, which can be found
at:
> http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors
> Just use the one closest to you, or when you decide
> to upgrade to the woody (aka testing) distribution,
> you can use the apt-spy package to determine the
> fastest server for you (install and read the man
> page)
apt-spy is something I haven't heard of. Little bits
of knowledge, a little at a time.
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