Re: moving from woody to sarge

[John Schmidt <jaschmidt@uofu.net>]

On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:19 am, linux wrote:
> sorry, should have explicitly stated that one reason for the move from
> woody to sarge is that the former doesn't recognise my Ethernet card so I
> cannot do installations over the network
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerome BENOIT" <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>
> To: <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>
> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:14 PM
> Subject: Re: moving from woody to sarge
>
> >A sound idea is to read
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html
> >
> > first.
> >
> > hth,
> > Jerome
> >
> > linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk wrote:
> >> okay, I'm going to take the plunge and forget about using ''woody'' &
> >> trying to upgrade the kernel (too many dependencies issues) and go str
> >> for ''sarge''... so, I presume I might as well just wipe the current
> >> (non-WinXP!) partitions and start from scratch -- does that make sense?
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Jerome BENOIT
> > room A2-26
> > Complexo Interdisciplinar da U. L.
> > Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2
> > P-1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal
> > email: jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr or benoit@cii.fc.ul.pt

It is probably easiest to just get somehow a netinstall CD for Sarge either a 
pre-rc2 or a daily build if pre-rc2 fails in someway for you.  

I have used the pre-rc2 to install on new and old hardware quite recently and 
found it quite nice and easy to setup.

John