Re: questions for when Etch goes stable
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 11:11:15AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sat December 23 2006 10:33, Nigel Henry wrote:
>
> > One of my Sarge installs I will keep on the stable repo, which on dialup
> > will be a lot of fun, as it upgrades to Etch
Make sure there is *plenty* of space. I found the upgrade from woody to
sarge needed about twice as much space during the upgrade as after, and
the sarge installation ended up much larger than the old woody one. I
suppose a lot of packages grew.
The sarge to etch may be the same.
Also, I have found the sarge to etch upgrade to be brutal. The
systems I have tried to upgrade recently are all in shambles. The
particular problem I've encountered seems to be the Xfree86 -> xorg 7
transition. It's a real trick to get it to upgrade, especially if there
are any non-Debian packages on the system, and even after upgrade, I
haven't got X into a reliable working state. Crash on boot is more like
it. I'm still upgrading and reconfiguring moderately regularly, in the
hope something starts to work soon. It has before. If you are on
adial-up, I hope you have a package caceh somewhere so you won't have to
repeatedly download the same packages as you try different approaches.
-- hendrik
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