Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 03:25:02PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > I just found a box in my basement that I haven't touched in many years. I > checked sources.list, and it was built when woody was stable and sarge was > testing. The box was running sid. So I thought it would be an interesting > experiment to see what is involved to get it to a modern sid, or if it is > even possible. The box is a PII/667. 192mb ram, 6gb drive. > > So far, I have run into the following problems: > > 1. I had to take debian non-free out of the sources.list (I had forgotten > all about that). > 2. It is having a problem installing ncurses-base. ("package uses Breaks, no > supported in this dpkg")
You know upgrade skipping release is not supported. You are hitting it :-) > I know it will probably break at some point, but I doubt I will ever have > need to reuse this box, and the data is way stale after so many years...I > thought it would be an interesting diversion. If you are just doing this for fun, cut down system with "dpkg -P ..." etc to minimum except apt. Then hope system upgrades OK. Alternatively, you may install chroot and debootstrap to install new system. That takes a bit of skill to do. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110326130700.gc20...@debian.org