Debian - upgrade to unstable

seanb · 02-20-2004, 02:18 AM

Installed Woody (3rd time was the charm!), wanted to update everything and run SID

When I apt-get - dist-upgrade it downloads the poackages, starts the install

and then I get a message saying I should turn off GDM before I continue

how do I turn off GDM?
Will the upgrade restart? SHould I turn off gdm then apt-get SID?

thanks guys

-Sean

Demonbane · 02-20-2004, 02:26 AM

If I remember correctly there's a command to stop it from respawning (soomething like gdm-stop)
or just change to another runlevel that doesn't have X, say "init 3" or even "init 1" if you've already fetched all the packages.