On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 10 Nov, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote about "RE: What do I REALLY need for > Potato upgrade?" > > > > On 10-Nov-99 David J. Kanter wrote: > >> I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm > >> not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get to > >> get > >> a relatively solid Potato build? > >> > > > > Unfortunately, upgrading to potato is mostly all or nothing. Lots of > > changes > > have occured. > > > > > > I just did this last weekend. You can use the -d option to apt-get so > that it will not start installing until you are done grabbing all the > necessary files. Yes it is slow but the fact that Debian can upgrade > in place over a modem is reason enough to do it! >
I "tried" to do this last weekend also. I used the apt method of dselect over a V.90 modem and a day and half later I had potato mostly installed. I agree that the multiple ways of upgrading/maintaining a Debian distribution are really cool -- I've been using a modem at home since 1.2. I ran into some dependency problems with the 'netstd' and 'rdist' packages. netstd depends upon the rdist package, which seems not to exist. The comment on netstd indicates it is a legacy package that should be removed, but I couldn't do that as there are other packages (e.g. diald -- that I depend on) that depend upon netstd. I tried every permutation that I could think of to get past configuring netstd (without rdist) but I couldn't figure out a way to do it. I realize potato is unstable -- I'm not complaining here at all. Any hints as to how to get past this problem? Thanks...