Re: how to upgrade from 1.1 ??
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > I have a pretty stable 1.1 installation, and I would like to upgrade to > 1.2. What would be the BEST way to do this? I don't have a 1.2 CD (yet) > and I have only a slow (28.8) net connection. Therefore, I'll probably be > upgrading package by package... > > So which packages should I upgrade first? I need to keep this system > running as much as possible! > Start with the base packages, then work your way through the rest of what you need. It will take 2 to 3 hours to download the base files as they are about 6 meg in total. I would advise having all these files before you do the upgrade. Take a look at DoList and base.list in the upgrades directory. This is a script that will drive dpkg with the base.list and do the upgrade for you. >From this point you can download packages, one at a time, if necessary, and install them using dpkg -i package_*.deb. This is how I built my first Debian system, and I can tell you that it's quite a bit of work (and waiting on downloads). If you have enough disk space you will probably have smother results if you download the whole archive first (and get the Packages files) you will be able to use dselect to do your upgrade. Or, you could buy a CD from myself, or I-Connect, or one of the other CD-R toasters, and not dedicate any of your precious hard disk space ;-) Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to upgrade from 1.1 ??
> I have a pretty stable 1.1 installation, and I would like to upgrade to > 1.2. What would be the BEST way to do this? I don't have a 1.2 CD (yet) > and I have only a slow (28.8) net connection. Therefore, I'll probably be > upgrading package by package... A few weeks ago I had also the Debian 1.1 installed on one of the systems. This system had an FTP connection via PPP (28.8kb), but I just instructed the dselect to upgrade everything over FTP from the ftp.bebian.org. It took the whole night to get the *.deb packages. Then, the next day I started the "configure" phase. There were many problems, most of them related to the lack of the /usr/X11R6/lib in the /etc/ld.so.conf (finally, I added this line manually and have run the ldconfig). The system was all the time operational and there were no any hangs. After many "dpkg -C"/"dpkg --configure xxx" I got it clean. In a summary: I believe you don't risk much attempting to install all packages. > So which packages should I upgrade first? I need to keep this system > running as much as possible! It will be running all the time. -Zenon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to upgrade from 1.1 ??
I have a pretty stable 1.1 installation, and I would like to upgrade to 1.2. What would be the BEST way to do this? I don't have a 1.2 CD (yet) and I have only a slow (28.8) net connection. Therefore, I'll probably be upgrading package by package... So which packages should I upgrade first? I need to keep this system running as much as possible! Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
