On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 15:08, Alan Poulton wrote: > How stable is woody? I'm not a seasoned Linux user, by any stretch of > the imagination, so I don't want to get involved with something where > I'm a beta tester and have to report errors or anything =] > > If Woody is stable enough for the average user, or for the average > Router/firewall with IP Tables, Masq'ing, etc, then how would I go about > upgrading to it?
Woody is technically a beta OS, but it is quite stable. Most users of debian run Woody because potato is just too old to be useful. It shouldnt have any problems as a router for you. If you knew how to set it up under potato you should be able to do the same under woody. To upgrade to woody you should change your /etc/apt/sources.list file. You should change all potato or stable entries to woody except for those dealing with security updates. Then do an: apt-get update apt-get install apt apt-utils dpkg dselect apt-get dselect-upgrade apt-get -f install apt-get dist-upgrade You might have to do the last 2 several times till it says that everything went fine. At the end of this you should have a good system. Everything should work fine. Any other problems or questions feel free to email me. -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that if you mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat."
