help with potato to woody upgrade please
I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the
instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I
need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list
The six non-comment lines in my current sources are:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020116)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20020116)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20020116)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
The CDs are burnt from images that I downloaded using jigdo.
I used apt-cdrom to get them into sources.list
The other three lines were placed in sources.list as comments by the initial install.
I uncommented them, but did not change any of the character strings on them.
First question is something of an aside: Why are the CDs said to be "unstable"?
More serious question:
I know I need some lines containing "testing" or "woody", but should I remove the
lines containing "stable"? or should a add new lines and keep the lines containing
"stable"?
Should I keep, or remove, the lines concerning the CDs?
And is there a correct way to remove, or do I just use emacs?
Also, I attempted to install jigdo from a .deb. There were unsatisfied dependencies, so
jigdo is in there in a suspended state. Should I remove it first? How? I think I must
remove it because all my attempts to upgrade so far have aborted with a complaint about
jigdo being uninstallable. But maybe the real problem is that I haven't shown apt-get
the way to find the more recent versions of installed packages.
And last question: If I should keep all the lines that I now have, and add lines for
testing, is the order of the lines important? Should the "testing" lines go before or
after the "stable" lines?
Please help. Thanks.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@quiknet.com
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