Greetings;

It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable,
but how do I upgrade?

I tried doing a network install but neither of the choices to build
init.rd worked, so that was a few hours wasted.

I have a working install of stable/sarge running. Can I start from
there somehow, or is that even more involved and lengthy?

Oh yeah. When I get to that point, which kernel do I choose? I
have a P4 but I have no idea which to use except for 386.

Many thanks, again!
Dennis


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On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:34:23PM -0700, wix@eskimo.com wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable,
> but how do I upgrade?
>
> I tried doing a network install but neither of the choices to build
> init.rd worked, so that was a few hours wasted.
>
> I have a working install of stable/sarge running. Can I start from
> there somehow, or is that even more involved and lengthy?
>
> Oh yeah. When I get to that point, which kernel do I choose? I
> have a P4 but I have no idea which to use except for 386.
>
> Many thanks, again!
> Dennis
One place to look is the 'release notes' which explain about the issues
when upgrading from sarge to etch. Since etch is almost 'stable', I'd
think that it would cover 99% of the issues involved.
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wix@eskimo.com:
>
> It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable,
> but how do I upgrade?

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include source lines for etch, run
'aptitude update && aptitude upgrade', then 'aptitude dist-upgrade'.
During the last stept you have to make sure aptitude doesn't try to
remove packages you really need. Maybe you have to run it a few times to
resolve all dependencies. That's it.

> I tried doing a network install but neither of the choices to build
> init.rd worked, so that was a few hours wasted.

Why do you need to build an initrd yourself when installing from
scratch?

> Oh yeah. When I get to that point, which kernel do I choose? I
> have a P4 but I have no idea which to use except for 386.

686 should be fine.

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