Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago,
and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently
purchased an additional hard drive and attempted to put Debian on it
(as God intended). Sarge didn't want to recognize my hardware and Sid
just plain crapped out. I tried to do a Knoppix install, but I don't
like their one big partition methodology. I ended up putting the base
"server" install of Ubuntu 5.10 "The Breezy Badger" on it (which was
also quite the pain the the keester, for the record I hate initrd).
So I have a semi-usable system, finally accomplished last night.
Now for the question: Can I, without too much heartburn, upgrade my
install the Etch or Sid? Is it as simple as changing my sources.list,
doing and apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade? I'm sure I'll
end up with a bunch of cruft, but I'd rather be on Debian proper than
Ubuntu. Any thoughts would be helpful.
Please CC me as I am not on the list.
Thanks,
Brooks
Just to put my 2 cents in.
I remember when Ubuntu was still in an earlier phase (about a year ago),
I did just what you wanted to do. But in order to do it, I used the
package manager to strip out pretty much everything. Then I rewrote
sources.list to point to debian package lists, apt-get update, apt-get
install dpkg, apt and apt-utils. Then apt-get update. Then I chose the
packages I wanted and installed them.
Something like that. Everything else I tried resulted in so many
dependency problems, as I recall.
Good luck!
Curtis
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