At 2004-10-05T13:53:34+1300, Roy Britten wrote: > Debian stable running on a SparcStation10. No graphical anything, > apache running but not a great deal else installed.
> So, having decided to make the move from stable to unstable, and being > rather unfamiliar with the process, I googled for a few minutes and > then performed the following (some verbosity trimmed from the output) Firstly, you should be following the official recommendations[0] for performing an upgrade. > $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade kernel-image This invocation is wrong; dist-upgrade does not take a list of packages. > $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade kernel-image > The following packages will be REMOVED: > console-tools-libs > The following NEW packages will be installed: > apache-utils apt-howto-common aptitude coreutils cpp-3.3 debconf-i18n [...] > ntp-server psmisc slang1a-utf8 sysv-rc ucf vim-common > 113 packages upgraded, 52 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/56.3MB of archives. After unpacking 61.1MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Read what apt-get is telling you it's about to do before proceeding. It's quite clear from the output above that it is not going to attempt to install the kernel-image package. > $ # throws up hands in surrender At this point you still haven't successfully installed kernel-image because each attempt was performed using an invalid invocation of apt-get. [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
