Do any body knows when debian lenny become stable?
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hitest, by all means backup everything and test the upgrade, and submit a report success or fail. if it fails then you can do you r clean install. follow the link under "upgrading from Etch to Lenny."
As luck would have it I had a power surge which knocked my DSL modem off-line for a few seconds. I re-started the modem and the download continued but I timed out on one package (892).
When I get to the end of this process will the installer ask me to install the dropped package? Do I run apt-get dist-upgrade again? Clean install of Lenny RC1? Heh, I'm glad I burned a netinstall iso for Lenny RC1 prior to starting this:-)
after I downloaded the debian-live-lenny-i386-gnome-desktop.iso I booted with it but I didnt find how to install on my system , I didnt find an icon say install or something like in other live CDs of other distros.
Interesting. After the dist-upgrade was all over it complained of missing packages. So I re-ran apt-get dist-upgrade and it found the one missing package. It is now unpacking, setting up everything.
This will be cool if it works
Edit: Added later. dist-upgrade complete, now running Lenny Thanks for all your help, guys!
Interesting. After the dist-upgrade was all over it complained of missing packages. So I re-ran apt-get dist-upgrade and it found the one missing package. It is now unpacking, setting up everything.
This will be cool if it works
Edit: Added later. dist-upgrade complete, now running Lenny Thanks for all your help, guys!
Glad that worked for you.. did you submit a success report to the devs using the Template ?
Thanks, man.
Sorry no, I didn't do that. My Internet connection was very slow yesterday, averaging 25-50 kb/sec, the dist-upgrade took 9 hours. I am a bit tired.
How do you do that? My apologies if you've already covered this.
there is a link in my previos post to the 'template'
basically they want an email showing your systems previous state, what you used to update (apt-get, aptitude, etc..) any problems you had, and the log that was created if you used the scripted method suggested in my previous post. Without the compressed log file it would be a fairly short email.
One more step towards Lenny becoming stable. the more reports they receive the better.
there is a link in my previos post to the 'template'
basically they want an email showing your systems previous state, what you used to update (apt-get, aptitude, etc..) any problems you had, and the log that was created if you used the scripted method suggested in my previous post. Without the compressed log file it would be a fairly short email.
One more step towards Lenny becoming stable. the more reports they receive the better.
I know its a stupid question, but what makes me ask that I cant wait for the stable lenny.
I have tried to google my question but I didnt find something useful.
I've been running Lenny for over a year now. Stable as a rock during the entire period. Never crashed once (iceweasel had to be killed a few times due to flash plugin freeze but those aren't due to the OS). When Lenny hits stable I'll go to the next testing. What Debian calls stable isn't what most other OS labels as stable.
any body answer my question please
After I downloaded the debian-live-lenny-i386-gnome-desktop.iso I didnt find how to install it, when I log into the live CD there is no icon says install or something like that.
please any body tell me how to install or should I download other thing than the Live CD.
any body answer my question please
After I downloaded the debian-live-lenny-i386-gnome-desktop.iso I didnt find how to install it, when I log into the live CD there is no icon says install or something like that.
please any body tell me how to install or should I download other thing than the Live CD.
I don't think there is a LiveCD with a working installer. You could go to debian.org and read through the installation guide for Etch. Things shouldn't have changed too much. There a probably also some limited installation notes on the Lenny pages. Understand that Lenny is still officially testing. Debian is a little different than other distros. We don't hold your hand, we kind of point you in the right direction and expect you to find your way back to us.
I've never booted a live Debian CD, so I do not know if you can install from that or not...
I've always installed using a Debian netinstall.iso (approx 160 MB download)
but the problem here that the net speed is so slow 20 KiB/s and I have to install it 1st on a VM before I use it on my personal computer, So I need an installable CD I am trying now to download the debian 1st CD from here http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/le...1/i386/iso-cd/
but the problem here that the net speed is so slow 20 KiB/s and I have to install it 1st on a VM before I use it on my personal computer, So I need an installable CD I am trying now to download the debian 1st CD from here http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/le...1/i386/iso-cd/
Why not go with a net install ISO especially if your download speed is slow like mine? Burn the net install ISO (approx 160MB) then pull down what you need from the Internet.
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