Am Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:00:11 +0100 schrieb Jason Stechschulte: [...]
> So today I downloaded K8, blew away my system and re-installed. Since > this release supports partitions over 2GB, a re-install was definitely > in order; however, is it normally necessary to do a re-install to > upgrade the version of Hurd? [...] Of course not! This is Debian! Neither do you have to download any CD images. Just fix your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free (replace ".de" with the country code for your closest Debian mirror, e.g. .us) You probably need another source stanza for those packages with are not yet in the official Debian archive. They used to be hosted by alpha.gnu.org but IIRC this has changed. Check out the wiki. After that, run apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade Another option is apt-get dist-upgrade which will probably upgrade more packages than the simple upgrade. But be careful as dist-upgrade will also happily remove installed packages in order to resolve conflicts. Thanks, Johannes -- ~/.signature under construction
