Hello list,I've not come across a definitive answer on this one,
probably due to not having search enough. Anyway, what's the best way
of updating a box running Stable to run Testing...?
Do I just change my sources from stable to testing and do and update
followed by an upgrade, or do I do a
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:20:08 +0200
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,I've not come across a definitive answer on this one,
probably due to not having search enough. Anyway, what's the best way
of updating a box running Stable to run Testing...?
Do I just change my sources from stable
Bob wrote:
Do I just change my sources from stable to testing and do and update
followed by an upgrade, or do I do a dist-upgrade...? The reason I ask
is that I haven't seen too much info on dist-upgrade and don't really
understand how to use it.
When you do a regular 'upgrade', apt will only
Tiago Pedrosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:20:08 +0200
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,I've not come across a definitive answer on this one,
probably due to not having search enough. Anyway, what's the best way
of updating a box running Stable to run
Since most of the packages I use are from the testing release, I'm going
to upgrade my system to testing.
As I have a Broadcom ethernet controller I currently use kernel-image
2.4.26-2-686-smp from woody-proposed-updates.
My server is a HP ProLiant DL140.
So I need a kernel witch supports dual
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:41:05PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
And yes, it's a hack (to get around limited space in the boot sector), but
it works OK.
It shouldn't go unnoticed, that the boot sector is a hack, too. Not to
mention BIOS, which is the thing why the MBR _has_ to be there.
--
Jan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:28:43 +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:41:05PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
And yes, it's a hack (to get around limited space in the boot sector), but
it works OK.
It shouldn't go unnoticed, that the boot sector is a hack, too. Not to
mention BIOS,
thanks for all the advice: still no joy as yet, though
when i boot from the CD, it gives me about 5 options, most of which
involve a new installation. there is, however, the option of executing a
shell command.
when i do that, it tells me i'm about to run ash (whatever that might be)
and that
Josh Robinson wrote:
thanks for all the advice: still no joy as yet, though
when i boot from the CD, it gives me about 5 options, most of which
involve a new installation. there is, however, the option of executing a
shell command.
when i do that, it tells me i'm about to run ash (whatever that
all sorted out: thanks to all for your help. nice shiny box, working as
new - and i no longer have to use pine to get at my email!
for some reason, my partitions are hda5 through 8 - i have no idea quite
how or why i set them up like that, but once i'd found that out, it was
all ok.
oh, and
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:33:55 +, Josh Robinson wrote:
all sorted out: thanks to all for your help. nice shiny box, working as
new - and i no longer have to use pine to get at my email!
for some reason, my partitions are hda5 through 8 - i have no idea quite
how or why i set them up like
Your must have set your partitions up as logical partitions. Logical
partitions start at 5.
how wonderfully, err, logical
j
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Your must have set your partitions up as logical partitions. Logical
partitions start at 5.
how wonderfully, err, logical
Logical
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:23:01 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
Logical vs. Primary. Logical partitions are a work-around for the fact
that you can only have four primary partitions. So 1-4 are reserved for
primary partitions, and logical partitions start at 5.
See, it *is* logical =)
I'm
Hugo S. Carrer wrote:
If the box has a connection to the internet all you need to do is the
following:
1) Open as root the file /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite editor
and uncomment or add if missing the folowing lines.
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb
a problem:
i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the
instructions on the screen. and rebooted.
except now my box won't boot. i just get the characters LI (i think) in
the top left-hand corner of teh screen, and nothing happens.
what should i do?
josh
--
To
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Anthony DiSante wrote:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org sarge/updates main contrib non-free
WATCH for the sarge word instead
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:32:58 + (GMT)
Josh Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a problem:
i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the
instructions on the screen. and rebooted.
except now my box won't boot. i
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:00:41 +0100, HdV wrote:
Note that if you use the lines above you will stay with sarge once it
gets to stable. If you want to continue tracking testing after that
you should change all occurances of sarge with testing in the above
lines.
That's exactly the point of
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:00:41 +0100, HdV wrote:
Note that if you use the lines above you will stay with sarge once it
gets to stable. If you want to continue tracking testing after that
you should change all occurances of sarge
Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one,
and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX -- replace with your
root partition, probably hda1.
thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which
is which of my various partitions - i can't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note also that sarge currently does NOT have a useful security
repository. All security updates for testing need to go through sid
first, so there is a not insignificant delay before they are apt-getable
for testing...
Most of the time that isn't too much of a problem as
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:11:14PM +, Josh Robinson wrote:
Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one,
and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX -- replace with your
root partition, probably hda1.
thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i
Josh Robinson wrote:
Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one,
and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX -- replace with your
root partition, probably hda1.
thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which
is which of my various
Hi Josh!
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Josh Robinson wrote:
a problem:
i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the
instructions on the screen. and rebooted.
except now my box won't boot. i just get the characters LI (i think) in
the top left-hand corner of the
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:27:56 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note also that sarge currently does NOT have a useful security
repository. All security updates for testing need to go through sid
first, so there is a not insignificant delay before they are apt-getable
for
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:02:04 +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:00:41 +0100, HdV wrote:
Note that if you use the lines above you will stay with sarge once it
gets to stable. If you want to continue tracking testing
Hello,
I've been using Slackware for a little over a year now, and have loved it
except for one thing: installing programs. Most of the time it goes just
fine, but the 10% or 20% of the time when it doesn't, it's incredibly
frustrating. After spending an entire day last week trying to get
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Anthony DiSante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
...
...and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause apt-get upgrade to upgrade me to
the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to put
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:21:40 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
Hello,
...and it makes me think that I can put lines into /etc/apt/preferences
and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause apt-get upgrade to upgrade me to
the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to put
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:21:40 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
...and it makes me think that I can put lines into /etc/apt/preferences
and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause apt-get upgrade to upgrade me to
the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to put
into
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:53:48AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:44:16PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
IMO, yes.
Although, I use sarge not testing to be sure that I dont
inadvertantly upgrade to the next version of testing by accident.
right, but beware, there's
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:21:51AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
Nearly. Testing has got (effectively) no new binary packages in months,
because sid has switched to libc6 2.3.1, which is, er, 'a little buggy'.
It's been broken enough that it's been unable to move into testing, and
since all binary
-Original Message-
From: M. Kirchhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Once I've got the Stable release of Woody running, is the best way to
move up to the Testing level to simply change my sources.list to point
to
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main
and then run
apt-get
, 2003 9:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Upgrading from Stable to Testing
-Original Message-
From: M. Kirchhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Once I've got the Stable release of Woody running, is the best way to
move up to the Testing level to simply change my sources.list to
point
On February 24, 2003 05:15 pm, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
How do the two methods differ? I don't know anything about downreving,
so I wasn't aware that modifying my sources.list as outlined below would
prevent me from doing that... thanks for the response
Keeping the stable lines in your apt.sources
Once I've got the Stable release of Woody running, is the best way to
move up to the Testing level to simply change my sources.list to point
to
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main
and then run
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
If there's a better/more efficient way, please let me
IMO, yes.
Although, I use sarge not testing to be sure that I dont
inadvertantly upgrade to the next version of testing by accident.
M. Kirchhoff wrote:
Once I've got the Stable release of Woody running, is the best way to
move up to the Testing level to simply change my sources.list to point
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:44:16PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
IMO, yes.
Although, I use sarge not testing to be sure that I dont
inadvertantly upgrade to the next version of testing by accident.
right, but beware, there's lots of folks who say that testing is
worse off than unstable right
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