On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:15:22 +0200, Csanyi Pal (csanyi...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Sjoerd Hardeman <sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: > > > Siju George wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I understand that Once a release is made updates to the previous > >> release will be made for an year more. > >> Will Etch be actively maintained or should I upgrade to Lenny as > >> soon as possible? > > Only security updates will be made to Etch, for still nine more > > months. Yet, as Lenny is stable now, it also won't get new features. > > I don't think it is wise to run Etch when the security support ends, > > so upgrading before January 2010 seems sane to me. > > Yet, of course do take time to plan and test your update cycle > > appropriately, don't wait until the last day. > > > > Sjoerd > > But I have on my Pentium I or II (?) PC box a Debian Etch that I can't > to upgrade to Lenny because of this bug (?): > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517986 Ok, so this says: > After I edited the sources.list and add a debian mirror, I run > 'aptitude update' but get the message: 'Illegal instruction'. After > that I can't to use aptitude anymore, nor apt-get anymore. Did you get a reply to your bug report? If not, then perhaps posting a copy here of your sources.list - with the mirror which is causing you your problem added - and see if someone can help you. > If I chnage back the state of the file hashing (#) the lines with > debian mirror, and run again 'aptitude update' I can to use aptitude > again. > > I have only the first Installation CD and want to use network to > install other packages. > > Is this a bug and how can I solve this problem? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org