On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:49:53 -0500, Richard Beri said:
> But I heard of some problems with Xfree 4.0 not working right after an
> apt-get dist upgrade to woody. Also SAS not working. I assume that
> Storm Package will always work with future versions of Debian as long as
> dselect itself makes no major changes. Lets say if I upgraded to woody
> right now from a Storm 2.06 system, what problems might I encounter?
> Will all the configuration of my hardware (all of what SAS has
> configured) stay the same?
>
> The main thing I am worried about is the upgrade to Xfree 4.0... I don't
> know what to do once X won't start, and GDM won't come up. What to do
> if startx won't work.
I started with the Rain release of Storm, and along the way have upgraded using
apt-get all the way to Debian unstable. I am using XFree 4.0.2 and kernel 2.4.0
with no problems at all. Major upgrades, especially to an unstable
distribution, can get a little choppy, but at no point did I end up with an
unusable system - can't guarantee it though!! SAS still works, as does the
Storm Package Manager. I did need to apt-get install these packages manually
though at one point - apt-get dist-upgrade didn't update SAS and modules
automatically.
Never forget that Storm Linux *is* Debian with a few extra apps. SAS is only
one way of configuring your system - there are many others. Similarly, Storm
Package Manager is only a front-end to apt-get. I only really use SPM to check
on the availablity of packages, and to search for packages on my system. Most
of the time I upgrade and install packages on the command line.
In your position I would be tempted to have a go upgrading to Debian Testing (I
can't remember whether testing or unstable is called Woody right now, but
putting 'testing' in /etc/apt/sources.list works fine.).
I suppose it all depends on your ability to sort out minor problems - how
confident are you? Usually apt will tell you what to do if it meets a problem.
I am a little raw when it comes to packages and apt-get but I managed to get
round the glitches just fine.
You may find that for major upgraded you need to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' a
few times. I found that on the first pass not all packages were configured -
just keep going until it doesn't need to do any more.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Debian Linux
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