Re: Upgrading from old Sarge (Testing) to Unstable
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 04:58:00PM +1100, Yasir Assam wrote:
> Thanks you all for your replies.
>
> It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get
> more confident about what I'm doing).
>
Update to stable. Do it gradually, taking ten or twenty packages at a
time and resolving any dependency clashes as they arise - doing 300+
at once may be asking for trouble.
> The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built
> this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't
> remember the name now) to make a .deb file from it and installed ith
> with dpkg I think.
make-kpkg ??
>
> Will doing 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade' install the
> default kernel? Will it leave mine in the GRUB menu at least? I'd like
> to make sure that apt-get doesn't overwrite the kernel with the standard
> prebuilt one - I presume mine will still be in the GRUB menu at least.
>
It will probably install a default kernel but yours should still be
available.
> Thanks,
> Yasir
>
No problem.
Andy
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