On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > * I am downloading the entire hamm binary-i386, contrib and non-free > tree to a directory (actually, my home directory) on an NFS server. Is > there a possibility that NFS might stop working during the upgrade > process? Why don't you just use dselect's "ftp" upgrade method? Much simpler than downloading the whole thing.
> * Could some kind soul who has gone through the upgrade process give me > a roadmap? The Mini-HOWTO, though useful, does not provide information > on how to upgrade the other packages once I have done the basic > upgrading. Can I start using dselect after following the instructions > in the mini-HOWTO? 1) Follow the mini-howto. 2) fire up dselect, select "ftp" as the method, point it at ftp.debian.org, use /debian/hamm/hamm/main/binary-i386 as the directories. 3) select the packages you want to upgrade (select all of them if you really want to upgrade them all :) 4) hit "install" and let it run. You'll have to repeat 2-4 using /debian/hamm/hamm/contrib/binary-i386 and /debian/hamm/hamm/non-free/binary-i386 to get contrib and non-free. Will -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | So don't beg, and don't plead ... | | you can't have the heart you make bleed.... | | -- The Beautiful South, "Love is..." | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .