On Saturday 10 February 2007 19:49, Dinesh Shah wrote: > Hi! > > I am finally able to install Debian Sarge (3.1) on my system. Here > is the system config > > MoBo: MSI - K8MM-V > CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ > MEM: 512 MB > HDD: 40 GB Mextor SATA > CD/DVD: Samsung Combo > > Now I am thinking of upgrading the Sarge to Etch. > > Added following repository to source.lst > > deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian etch main contrib > > done > > # apt-get update > > Now > > # apt-get upgrade > > Tells me it will download 75 (71.8MB) upgraded packages > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > Selects 737 upgraded, 345 newly installed, 55 to remove and 2 not > upgraded and will download 667MB. :-( > > Do you think my system will survive this upgrade?
It will. But there is a very small chance that u may have to intervene manually, usually with dpkg -i --force-overwrite <some package>. Or even manually opening the deb and copying required files if u are drunk. ( i am sober right now). > Is there any way I can selectively upgrade only important packages > like X11? You could but it could be a very very long night . http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/en/quick-reference.txt should help to do the above and bail out if neccessary. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
