Good morning! Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
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Now for the question: Can I, without too much heartburn, upgrade my install the Etch or Sid? Is it as simple as changing my sources.list, doing and apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade? I'm sure I'll end up with a bunch of cruft, but I'd rather be on Debian proper than Ubuntu. Any thoughts would be helpful.
You might want to start by seeing how to do the trick in reverse (go from another distro to Ubuntu):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation/FromAnotherDistro Rob