On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > You answer is correct but, I *think* that Roberto may not be a native English > speaker and means: > "I'd like to ask how long it will take to upgrade from Sarge to Etch." no, i was asking if there is a deadline to upgrade, not the time necessary to undertake the process, which is not important for me, also a couple of hours is fine ...
> > Never having done said task, I couldn't say. It depends a bit on how long it > takes to download all the packages. You should aptitude -d dist-upgrade to > get all the packages first, which will make no changes to your running > programs. After that is complete, then you can follow the normal proceedure, > and it should be quite fast, probably less than an hour, but it depends on > which packages you have installed. thanks all the same, but the process showed in official debian pages seems a little longer than a simple command; anyway, i'll try all the same thank you again -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux Debian Kubuntu, Edubuntu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org