On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:55 +1000, Billy Kwong wrote: > > So, a question for the Debian, Gentoo etc. users: have any of you have > > had a problem when you tried to get the system to upgrade itself from an > > older release (e.g. Debian 3.0 to 3.1)? Or does it always work > > perfectly smoothly? > > > With Debian, it depends on the packages you have installed. Often times > there will be old packages that would prevent a smmooth dist-upgrade, but > they can be resolved quite easily (remove the old offending package first). > Normally apt or dpkg would tell you how to resolve such problem if it > exists. > > At the end of an upgrade, yes, Debian/Ubuntu is very usable, unlike some > other distros. >
hmmm well for me the upgrade from breezy to dapper turned my laptop into a paper weight (dapper has issues with ati video cards) I blew everything away and went back to breezy. So warned I tried the dapper desktop cd before upgrading my desktop. Result, hard drives, what hard drives? Apparently dapper amd64 doesn't like adaptec scsi cards. So for me the upgrade breezy to dapper was a complete impossibility. For either laptop or desktop. Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
