On 2009-07-22 15:20, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:27:30 -0400, Damon wrote in message <[🔎] 1248190050.3741.40.camel@dam-main>:On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:03 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:On 2009-07-21 08:46, Soren Orel wrote:But where can I download SID?? I just can't find an e.g.: "download amd64cd for sid"...:(This is Debian, not Ubuntu! Upgrading-in-place is Easy.Presuming you have a good internet connection, this *should* be all you need to do:1. Edit sources.list, replacing all lenny or stable references with testing...you meant "sid" or "unstable", "testing" buys you Squeeze and whatever follows it, and you volonteer as a test user, for Debian. ;o)2. # apt(itude) update && apt(itude) dist-upgrade 3. Reboot. to activate new kernel. 4. Edit sources.list, replacing testing with unstable. 5. # apt(itude) update && apt(itude) dist-upgrade 6. Reboot, to activate new kernel...steps 4, 5 and 6 are necessary why? Me, I've always been successful going straight to Sid.
I always (not that I need to do it often) make the intermediate step. Guess I'm just a Nervous Nelly about some things.
But then, when I *do* do it, it's always with a minimal system, where I wait until I'm on Sid to install the bulk of the packages.
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