Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:02:31PM -0400, Aaron wrote:
> Hey Debian-lovers,
>
> I know this question must get asked a lot, but I wasn't able to turn
> up many good answers (and the answer I'm looking for is largely an
> opinion, anyhow).
>
> I've just (re)installed Woody on my laptop for about the third time.
> The first time I mucked things up severely with Partition Magic, and
> the second time I tried to change all of my apt sources to testing and
> do an upgrade, which destroyed a lot of perfectly good settings...
>
> My question is whether there is a "safe" (I mean *relatively* safe)
> way to move from stable to testing without serious damage, or if I'm
> better off formatting and installing from the Sarge netinst CD?
DON'T run the Sarge netinst CD, unless you want to test the installer
and fill out some bug reports, ;-)
Yes, there is a safe way. I moved from stable, to testing to unstable in
the course of a few months and everything works, well mostly. If you
know beforehand that you want to switch, don't install a lot of complex
things like kde. If you already have them, no problem.
What I did was simple. Make sure you only have the official debian
sources. That means two at most, one for normal debian, one for non_US.
You can have deb-src lines, of course.
Do an apt-get update, do an apt-get dist-upgrade. Make sure that not
tons of packages get removed and hit yes. Wait... Done.
In my case, it was as simple as that, ;-)
HTH,
David
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