Re: dpkg/dselect misbehavior

[Stephan Sauerburger <stephan@sauerburger.org>]

Oh man.. I just spent about 4 days installing packages and reconfiguring
it from scratch, including rolling a new kernel. Not having to completely
redo all of it again from a Woody CD would be most preferred. Is there
any sort of Potato-to-Woody (2.2 to 3.0) automated update procedure implemented?



On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:57:43AM -0500, ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:22:26 -0500
> Stephan Sauerburger <stephan@sauerburger.org> wrote:
>
> > I just installed Debian from a Deb 2.2 Potato CD after a hard drive
> > crash which occurred about a month ago. I used the same CD I did for
> > the previous install, and as far as I can tell, the same installation
> > procedure - 
>
> Welcome back to the world, Rip. :)
>
> While you were sleeping Woody became the stable distribution (it's been
> stable since last July).
>
> In fact, a revision has been released and Woodyr1 is now stable.
>
> Potato is still in the Debian archives, but many are expecting support
> to be discontinued in a few months. Since you're installing to a new
> hard drive from scratch anyway, this might be a good time to move up to
> Woodyr1.
>
> A 2.2 kernel is installed by default; for a 2.4 kernel just type "bf24"
> at the initial prompt when you boot the installation CD.
>
> Kevin
>
>
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Stephan