Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Mark Copper wrote: Economics aside, I am still amazed after all these years at the power free software has provided to the ordinary person. No university or corporation needed; just read and ask questions. Cool. And in what way does a GOOD closed-source software vendor break that? I've work

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-06 Thread Mark Copper
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:51:43AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Mark Copper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my > > current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is > > it to do that before upgrading? > > But

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Mark Copper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my > current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is > it to do that before upgrading? Thanks for asking the questions, because the resultant answers were informati

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-04 Thread Mark Copper
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 07:36:45PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:42:16AM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: > > I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my > > current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is > > it to do that

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:42:16AM -0600, Mark Copper wrote: > I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my > current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is > it to do that before upgrading? > > I have not used aptitude on this system before. Ho

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-03 15:42 +0100, Mark Copper wrote: > I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my > current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is > it to do that before upgrading? Not very much. However you should be able to do this, if you replace

tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-03 Thread Mark Copper
Hi, I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is it to do that before upgrading? I have not used aptitude on this system before. How important is that? It would be nice to run the upgrade through