On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 26 May 2012 12:43:45 you wrote: >> > I prefer to use aptitude full-upgrade routinely - but I have the code >> > name in my sources.list, not stable or testing. I then change the code >> > name when I want to get the more recent version. So, Squeeze not stable, >> > Muhammad. you could get in quite a mess at the changeover point from >> > Squeeze to Wheezy if you have stable in your sources.list, as several >> > people have pointed out. >> >> if i use Squeeze (the code name) instead stable, sid or anything. >> should i not to worry about system crash? is it what people here mean >> to say (who support code name "squeeze" ) that if i "apt-get >> upgrade/full-upgrade/safe-upgrade" will not crash my system if using >> squeeze. because what i am worried about here is system crash. > > I'm afraid that I don't understand you. Why should you have a system crash?
>I'm afraid that I don't understand you. Why should you >have a system crash? i know my question regarding comparing Windows and Linux a bit annoying, but i had bad experiences with upgrading windows from one version to another one. and in linux i just run the command "ap-get upgrade" and after few minutes i was working in wheezy regardless of sid or testing (so the simplicity of the process left me very confuse). i know how patches and service packs in windows can turn people's life to nightmare. actually i am the only resource in system and network in my company and i am the only one who is motivating management to shift to linux. so i am a bit scared. because this is new world to me. however i learn too much from this thread and from this mailing list. i am thankful to everyone for sharing your views/thoughts/suggestions . i know remaining confusions will be clears after getting use to with linux. Thanks > And what are you trying to achieve? > > Always use code names, and incidentally Sid is the code-name for unstable, a > code-name which never changes. > > So choose which you want. From the sound of things you want Squeeze. Install > Squeeze. Check that Squeeze is in your sources.list, and only Squeeze at > this stage. No mention of stable or anything else. Update Squeeze. > (aptitude update followed by aptitude full-upgrade or aptitude safe-upgrade.) > From then on you will only basically get security updates, though there are > periodic point releases for Squeeze to iron out some remaining bugs etc. > > For now, and while you bed down with Debian/Linux, simply ignore all mentions > of Wheezy, stable, Sid, unstable, testing etc. Time enough to come to terms > with those when you understand fully what is going on or when Wheezy has > become Stable and Squeeze is Old Stable. > > apt is now preferred to aptitude by many on this list, but I am more familiar > with aptitude, and might have got the commands slightly wrong had I attempted > to give you them. (I did last time that I did so.) But for what you are > doing now, either is fine, and when it comes to upgrading to a new release, > the release notes will tell you which to use. > > But above all, keep things simple for now. And when you ask a question, try > to express it without reference to Windows. Many of us do not use Windows, > and in my case I have not done so since Windows 98, which I don't remember > very well. > > HTH > Lisi > > > -- > 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/201205261517.08770.lisi.re...@gmail.com > -- 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/CAGWVfMmnt=secmo8vujuagi8qft6co5iptpj_ee-9krrrm4...@mail.gmail.com