Re: Newbie Nvidia/Woody problem
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:32, Brian Coiley wrote:
>
> Regarding Sarge, isn't that unstable? What exactly does that mean?
>
Sarge is "Testing" - between Stable and Unstable. Sarge will soon (?)
become the new stable.
> How
> exactly would I switch to it? I deliberately chose to install Woody, from a
> set of CD's, because I felt that for a complete dunce like me it would be
> far easier than downloading and installing bleeding-edge stuff that I don't
> understand.
>
Easy as 123. One of the benefits of Debian.
1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to include mirrors like these:
deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ sarge/non-US main
You can find your local Debian mirror here:
http://www.debian.org/mirror/list
2. Login as a normal user, switch to root user using su and update the
package list:
$ su
(supply root password)
# apt-get update
3. Upgrade and install the packages
#apt-get dist-upgrade
Do look at the Debian Reference
http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference
> I do have a network connection, which is working OK.
You will need some kind of broadband internet connection. I estimate
that a 56k dialup connection would take 20 hours to download the files.
Chris.
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