Hello Jim. First, the debian-mentors list is for package maintainers and wanna-be-package maintainers. General questions such as this are normally aimed at debian-user.
Second, you are probably needing sources.lists lines more like these: deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free have fun :) On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 10:30:46PM -0500, Jim Ruby wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to upgrade to the latest linux kernel version 2.2.12. Right > now I am running slink 2.1. I was told I needed to upgrade to potato to > make the best use with the least amount of problems with the best > compatability. > > Here is what I have in my /etc/apt/sources.list file > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US > > Next I did an apt-get update and the non-us stuff was not found. I've read > the 'info sources.list' page and it looks right to me. > The potato main, contrib and non-free stuff went ok. > > I'm not sure of the best safest way to complete the upgrade from slink to > potato. > > I tried an apt-get upgrade and I seen that there was a bunch of things that > were going to be held back. Not sure why, but I see there is a flag I can > use --ignore-holds that will get around this and upgrade everything. > > What are the differences between upgrade, dselect-upgrade and dist-upgrade > > Thanks for helping a newbie out. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
