Re: Sarge

[gcrimp@vcn.bc.ca]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 08:22:20AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> YH wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is sarge stable to install?
> 
> Depends on your criteria.  For personal workstation use, I find even Sid 
> to be stable enough for my needs, and that way I get all the newest goodies.
> 
> If I were installing a non-critical server, I'd probably go with Stable. 
> For a critical server, I'd stick with Woody for now.
> 
> > I want to use 2.6 kernel, either I can upgrade kernel from woody or 
> > re-install completely from Sarge, which one is better?
> 
> 
> If you're only wanting to upgrade your kernel, and the 2.6 series is not 
> in the Woody repositories (implied from your post, but I haven't checked 
> lately), and you have network access, you can add the Stable lines into 
> your /etc/apt/sources.list file and then do:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-cache search kernel-image-2.6
> apt-get install [whatever 2.6 kernel you need/want that's now available]
> 
> Once you have a working machine with the new kernel, if you then want to 
> upgrade the entire system to Stable, follow up with:
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> No need to do a re-install. I personally would go the other direction. 
> I'd upgrade my system first (with the dist-upgrade), then upgrade my 
> kernel. But that's just me.
> 

I don't think Sarge has been officially released.  Woody is still the
official stable release.  I think you meant Sarge in all above instances
where you made reference to stable.  

GCrimp