On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:22:49PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I just found this book for almost nothing at a local book discount shop: > > Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed by Mario Camou and Aaron Von Cowenberghe *2.1*? That's slink and rather old. ~1998 or so. > If I understand apt, upgrading from 2.1 to Woody should be that simple > -- is it? Kinda...There's a good 4 years of development between slink and woody though, so I'd say you'd be much better off going via potato. > And, when I was trying to install Woody, I booted from disc 5 instead > of disc 1 to go with the later kernel. Yes. But why? If your hardware is supported by the 2.2 kernels, just use that to install. See below. > Is it simple to upgrade the kernel later? Extremely. 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-<arch>', where <arch> is 386. k7, etc...Follow the instructions carefully, and you'll be all set. > The other option -- I don't know how much has changed since 2.1. I > know the install has changed, but, other than that, would most > everything else be the same (other than later versions of some > packages)? Off the top of my head (Colin will probably have replied with a full list by the time you get this though :): * most everything uses debconf now it supports 2.4 kernels glibc2, which was a big deal at the time, but is probably unnoticeable now... * runs on far more architectures * Policy has changed a fair bit, from what I can gather, but I wouldn't know the details... * Debian's size has expanded enormously. Potato was 3 CDs worth of binaries, Woody was 7. No idea how many slink was, but the software selection will be rather limited. * non-Free software was far more important. For instance, about the only 'decent' (for some values of decent, anyhow) X-based browser was Netscape Navigator. Yes, it's slow, clunky and buggy, but it was all there was. Nowadays, it's easy to run a full Debian system with not a single piece of non-Free software on there, and not miss it a bit. IF you're curious, try installing vrms :) -rob
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