Re: How to upgrade 6 - 7

2012-09-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 17, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 07:25:27PM -0400, Logan Brown wrote: I would never recommend attempting a dist upgrade to unstable. I've tried it twice in the past, and both times led to reinstalling the from scratch. Dependencies get mixed up, and

Re: How to upgrade 6 - 7

2012-09-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 07:25:27PM -0400, Logan Brown wrote: > I would never recommend attempting a dist upgrade to unstable. I've > tried it twice in the past, and both times led to reinstalling the > from scratch. Dependencies get mixed up, and you're left with a highly > unstable "bastardized" s

Re: How to upgrade 6 - 7

2012-09-16 Thread drz
Hello Im running testing on PowerPC since, I dont know half a year after squeeze came out... and before that it was the same after lenny and etch. Well I had a x86 then but the point is that, things can mess up, if you upgrade to testing, but its pretty unlikely ... but its possible. Wheezy is

Re: How to upgrade 6 - 7

2012-09-15 Thread Logan Brown
Kristen, I would never recommend attempting a dist upgrade to unstable. I've tried it twice in the past, and both times led to reinstalling the from scratch. Dependencies get mixed up, and you're left with a highly unstable "bastardized" system. Regards, Logan Brown "Do you know how many people

How to upgrade 6 - 7

2012-09-15 Thread Kristen R
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 List, I am thinking of upgrading my PowerPC from Squeeze to testing. I have read some articles I found but have not really found anything up to date. Nearly all of them speak of disaster while others speak of success. I wonder if it is advisab