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Re: Floppy Image to Install



On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:33:51PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 15:20, Matthew Tedder wrote:
> > I've tried the rescue.bin and root.bin--the rescue just boots my previously 
> > installed Potato and the other doesn't boot anything.
> You have potato installed?  This is the great thing about debian.  You
> dont have to reinstall everytime a new release comes out.  You can
> register your new CD's using apt-cdrom if Im not mistaken then do an
> apt-get update && apt-get install apt apt-utils dpkg dselect && apt-get
> -u dist-upgrade  After this, your system should be all good.
> It is important that you install those packages first because your
> upgrade will go alot smoother as a whole.  Also there are a few upgrade
> how-to's out there that would give a better explanation of how to do
> this.  I think Im missing something on those things that you need to
> install first.  Anyone wanna fill in my deficiencies?

Umm, don't forget to change /etc/apt/sources.list if you want to change
to woody or sid. Potato is so old, it seems dumb to stick with it when
woody is so close to being released.
--
Nick


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