On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 11:00:52PM -, Pollywog wrote:
I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my laptop from
Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a whole new
Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid; I want to
On 27-Dec-1999 Mark Brown wrote:
No, no reinstall should be required - for me, one of the great things
about Debian is that it supports in-place upgrades on running systems
(you don't have to boot an installer or anything). Just pointing apt or
dselect at a source of potato packages and
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my
laptop from
Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a
whole new
Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid; I
want to
upgrade the system I
One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old
ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for
a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet,
mostly due to laziness).
Only problem I have seen is that the new system tried to load
On 27-Dec-1999 Nathan O. Siemers wrote:
One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old
ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for
a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet,
mostly due to laziness).
I broke my pcmcia
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Pollywog wrote:
On 27-Dec-1999 Nathan O. Siemers wrote:
One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink - potato on an old
ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for
a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet,
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 07:18:09PM -, Pollywog wrote:
I broke my pcmcia stuff and I am unable to fix it. I think it has to do with
trying to install a kernel the Debian way. I will trying reinstalling a small
slink system and then upgrade via ppp. If that does not work, I will have to
On 27-Dec-1999 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
BTW, I didn't know about the debian-laptop list until today. That might be
the best place to discuss this.
I did not know until now :)
thanks
--
Andrew
On 27-Dec-1999 Mark Brown wrote:
PCMCIA support depends upon some kernel modules which are provided in a
seperate package to the kernel. When you install a new kernel you also
need to install a version of these modules that matches your new kernel.
I did that, but still lost pcmcia.
Pollywog wrote:
I recall seeing many posts about systems being rendered unusable or broken
after upgrade from Slink to Potato. Is this still a problem? I do not want
to try it if I will just break my system.
I am a reformed Red Hat user. I've upgraded to potato on both my
machines, and
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 07:42:37PM -, Pollywog wrote:
On 26-Dec-1999 kometboy wrote:
[Updating to potato]
Thanks for your thoughts on the subject. I could be wrong, but it seems I saw
more than a few posts from people who had upgraded and had some not-so-minor
problems. Unless
On 26-Dec-1999 Tobias Zimpel wrote:
Well, I broke my system completely a few weeks ago with a simple
(segfaulting)
'apt-get dist-upgrade' while I was running potato for months without serious
problems. There was no chance to repair it; I couldn't even boot, and I
didn't manage to repair it
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