Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:30, Cassiano Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do it? I > > was really eager to try sid, but didn't want to break my etch and > > have to reinstall everything!
> About the only bit of serious advice I'd give in running Unstable is > what I'd give anyone: Don't purge a previous, working, kernel until > you know the new kernel is working. :^) Even better (especially for unstable): keep one old (working) kernel installed. I learned this the hard way. About one year ago (shortly after I had done a successful upgrade straight from sarge to sid) got hit by "the yaird issue". It was a good way of learning to use chroot from a live-cd ;) > One way I avoid cruft is that I use dselect, and make sure to "purge" > all obsolete and other packages that are being removed. Maybe > aptitude has a setting for that, I don't know. Aptitude::Purge-unused true; Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
