Dist upgrade question
I'm a long-time Slackware user, but, lately I've started using Debian more and more. I now have one Slackware box at home and two Debian Etch 4.0r1 boxes. I'm very happy with my Debian Units.
I was thinking of doing a dist-upgrade on one of my Debian boxes. I'd like to try out Lenny again ( I've used the Lenny net install CD in the past, but, I'd like this time to try the upgrade pathway.) Should I modify my sources.list from main to lenny or testing? Thoughts, opinions? Thank you for any and all replies. hitest:) |
If you change the sources.list to "lenny"; when Lenny goes Stable, you'll stay right with it.
If you change it to "testing"; when Lenny goes stable, you'll move automatically into the new Testing. That's what I do. |
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Cool:-)
Thank you, rickh, the dist-upgrade went without a hitch. Running Debian Lenny with a shiny new version of Gnome, 2.18.3. I appreciate your advice. I love the fact that Debian is hardcore like Slackware and FreeBSD. All you need is a shell prompt and a text editor to work on your system:-) |
Did you get the current Lenny kernel? (2.6.22) Once you do that, you'll probably have to update some drivers. module-assistant is the right tool for that.
For all practical purposes, you're actually running Gnome 2.20 ... There are just a few minor pieces still missing. I'm not sure if the nautilus bug is still there in Lenny, or not. Right click an icon, select Properties, and look at a tab or two. If it crashes, the bug is still there. It doesn't exist in Sid anymore, though, so if it's still in Lenny, it won't last long. |
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I wonder when they're going to upgrade Ice Weasel to 2.0.0.9, I'm running that on my Slackware box. |
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Very cool!:cool: |
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If you're like most of us, you'll get real tired of waiting during that 6-week or so period when nothing is going on in Testing, and you'll study mixed systems so you can pull in a few new things yourself. |
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