Re: Upgrading to testing
Find backports to sarge to just upgrade only your kernel and not all the system. Good luck On 3/31/06, Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is my first post to this list. I am running Sarge at the moment but would like to upgrade to testing. I have been using the 64-bit version for just two weeks. I have run testing for about two years on a 32-bit box. The first time I tried an upgrade, it broke due to Xorg. I couldn't fix it no matter what I tried so I reinstalled. Now I am dead scared to upgrade - but I need to do so in order to get my nForce-based sound card working as the module for the card is only available in the kernel images in etch. Having read some help pages, I think the following will help me check if things will break again: Change sources.list to testing Run apt-get -s update, then run apt-get -s dist-upgrade Then if there are no messages about incompatibilities, go ahead and do the real thing. Can someone tell me if this is the right path to take? Thanks, Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFELQd5ZyXhknb+33gRAj1BAJ9AXjqPnQk7ZnHGrKwyuaLypl5UnQCePuJj V2sXzfmdyw8K+alA8/KCp1k= =0sse -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Engañarse por amor es el engaño más terrible; es una pérdida eterna para la que no hay compensación ni en el tiempo ni en la eternidad. Kierkegaard Jaime Ochoa Malagón Integrated Technology Tel: (55) 52 54 26 10
Upgrading to testing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is my first post to this list. I am running Sarge at the moment but would like to upgrade to testing. I have been using the 64-bit version for just two weeks. I have run testing for about two years on a 32-bit box. The first time I tried an upgrade, it broke due to Xorg. I couldn't fix it no matter what I tried so I reinstalled. Now I am dead scared to upgrade - but I need to do so in order to get my nForce-based sound card working as the module for the card is only available in the kernel images in etch. Having read some help pages, I think the following will help me check if things will break again: Change sources.list to testing Run apt-get -s update, then run apt-get -s dist-upgrade Then if there are no messages about incompatibilities, go ahead and do the real thing. Can someone tell me if this is the right path to take? Thanks, Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFELQd5ZyXhknb+33gRAj1BAJ9AXjqPnQk7ZnHGrKwyuaLypl5UnQCePuJj V2sXzfmdyw8K+alA8/KCp1k= =0sse -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading to testing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Run apt-get -s update, then run apt-get -s dist-upgrade Then if there are no messages about incompatibilities, go ahead and do the real thing. Can someone tell me if this is the right path to take? If you are afraid of breaking things, the correct path should probably include the concepts 'backup' and 'test backup' somewhere! Good luck, Jurriaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
