Re: [Sheflug] debian potato / woody / ...

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Barrie Bremner (baz [at] barriebremner.com) wrote:
> >>>>> "Jose" == j l gomez-dans writes:
> 
>     Jose> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:41:37PM +0100, Barrie Bremner
>     Jose> wrote:
>     >> On a similar note, how do I go about installing Woody?
>     >> 
>     >> I've got 2.2r0, full set or 2.2r2 single disk kicking around
>     >> here somewhere...
> 
>     Jose> 	If you have 2.2rX, and a woody mirror, change your
>     Jose> /etc/apt/sources.list. Where it says stable (or 2.2r2 or
>     Jose> whatever), write "unstable". 
> 
>     Jose> 	Then do an apt-get update, and then apt-get -s
>     Jose> diat-upgrade (see if it does something daft). When happy, do
>     Jose> an apt-get dist-upgrade, and you're on.
> 
> How big is the difference in Potato to Woody?
>

Not sure, but potato -> sid is the weekend worth of pain you mention
next :)

> Is an apt-get update session likely to be a weekend worth of pain?
> Does apt have similar auto-resume capablilities as ncftp, for example?

Yes, it will resume :)

> I'm on Freeserve, so the connection gets dumped every 2 hours, and
> being 50k from the end of getting glibc-2.2 and the connection to drop
> is enough to drive me to drink! X-)
> 

Well, you'll have a weekend free while it updates, what better way to
spend it? :)

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