Re: building an etch box

["Adam Black" <amadan.korvin@gmail.com>]

I had a crazy time upgrading from sarge to sid, but eventually I got
through it.  Here are some things I did.

1)  do your kernel first - you need a >2.6.15 or everything will
break.  I had to use dpkg with force-break and all that to just get
the packages that belonged to the kernel

2)  If you have even a slightly cranky graphics card when using X,
upgrade your X-related stuff next (but not KDE/GNOME) because from
sarge to sid you will be switching from xfree86 to x.org

3)  do apt-get dist-upgrade (or aptitude dist-upgrade) with your
sources.list directed to etch.  but make sure you don't remove the
references to sarge - there are a couple of old packages the system
will still use, and if there's no way for it to download them,
everything else will break

4)  do another dist-upgrade to sid

this was onerous, but worked for me

adam