Hello,
I have a Woody 2.2.20-idepci system running on a Dell
that I am trying to upgrade to 2.4.x (Sarge, or
testing) with mixed results.
At first I felt that I should download source and
recompile the kernels, and I did that, but those
kernels did not match any Debian patched headers,
which I need. Those kernels run OK but I'm not able
to compile and add the modules that I need/like.
The advice I got here was to use this procedure:
"Change Woody to Sarge in sources.list"
I assumed this meant change "stable" to "testing"
which is what I did.
"apt-get update" This when fine.
"apt-get dist-upgrade" This did not connect...
It immediately went through my dependency tree and
gave me a list of packages to "apt-get -f install". I
thought the power of "apt-get" was that it figured out
what packages you needed and got them automatically?
I started at the top of the list and tried to get them
one by one but right off the bat I must have picked
the wrong one because it told me that I had yet other
packages or some of the other ones to get. I don't
know what order to get them in and reading the docs I
am led to believe that I am not *supposed* to have to
do all this by hand.
What am I missing or doing wrong with "apt-get"? Or
am I just expecting too much of it?
Thanks,
ejd
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