Re: Is that all there is to it??
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Cassiano Leal wrote:
> Tarek Soliman wrote:
>> An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before
>> you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition.
>
> Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do it? I was
> really eager to try sid, but didn't want to break my etch and have to
> reinstall everything!
>
> Cheers
> Cassiano
The first step is to create a new partition for it, then install etch on
that partition. It will update your grub to give two options for
booting etch. Pick one of them and then change /etc/apt/sources.list
and change all occurrences of "etch" to sid, and then do:
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. You'll then have Sid.
Of course, instead of installing etch over again, you can just copy
everything to the new partition, but clean installs are easier to deal with.
Once everything is set up, you can choose to boot sid, or change which
system you are using without rebooting by using the chroot command. See
man chroot for more information about chroot.
A note about running Sid. Packages break. Fixes happen quickly, but
you can sometimes be left with a broken system for a few days. Not
everything at the same time breaks, so it is still usable. That's where
distro's like Sidux come in. You might want to try that instead.
Their goal: (from the Sidux Manual)
On 24th of November 2006 sidux was formed by a group of people who will
strive to do the impossible: making Debian Sid (aka "Unstable") stable.
Joe
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