Re: To: John Gay
On Thursday 31 May 2001 04:02, Scott E. Graves wrote: > First of all, 90% of the time woody is broken. If it's a > leading-edge dist you're looking for, use sid. Your system coulkd > be rendered useless ussing the woody tree. But woody is sid + a couple of of (critical?) bug-free days. Woody should in principle be more stable than sid. Only problem I see is the security updates.
Re: To: John Gay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 30 May 2001 9:02 pm, Scott E. Graves wrote: > First of all, 90% of the time woody is broken. If it's a leading-edge > dist you're looking for, use sid. Your system coulkd be rendered useless > ussing the woody tree. Huh? I've had two systems on woody for _AGES_. They both started from potato, then I just added the woody line and picked my way through the mess with dselect. (aside: I've since switched to aptitude. What's the recommended console front-end to apt atm? Deity? Is that at all stable / usable?) Every so often I find I have to hold a group of packages while dependent packages get uploaded, e.g. all apache-related stuff at the moment as php4 and friends still want an old version (and all apt stuff for aptitude similarly), but for the most part it seems to work. Am I missing something here? - -- Chris Boyle - Winchester College - http://archives.wincoll.ac.uk/ For my PGP key visit: http://archives.wincoll.ac.uk/finger.php?q=chrisb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7FV4RD834tscfhTwRAgGNAJ4zpb1naGjLf5BVyMEWnLu8tawwFACeLoMH 9N2wqJsesjzHXL30kADDei0= =31DK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: To: John Gay
Robert Tilley wrote: Regarding upgrading a Potato Debian to Woody, I beseech you for aid! Given your hints that there is a point in the installation process where you can choose to install Woody instead of Potato, I wiped my disk for the third time and proceeded with a reinstall. Failure. I noticed no point which was an opportunity to install Woody and ended up with a Potato box again. I quickly fixed LILO to let me get back to Windows 2000 so I could e-mail this message. I read over the installation manual included on the Debian CD in both HTML and PDF format with no enlightenment occurring. Mommy, make Debian give me Woody! Bahahaha -- Yes, I'm almost at the point of tears, at least metaphorically speaking. Robert P.S. Nor can I find a document entitled "How To Select Potato / Woody / Sid" on GNU/Debian. P.P.S. Could you please send me your e-mail address again as the previous mail is on my Linux partition. First of all, 90% of the time woody is broken. If it's a leading-edge dist you're looking for, use sid. Your system coulkd be rendered useless ussing the woody tree.
To: John Gay
Regarding upgrading a Potato Debian to Woody, I beseech you for aid! Given your hints that there is a point in the installation process where you can choose to install Woody instead of Potato, I wiped my disk for the third time and proceeded with a reinstall. Failure. I noticed no point which was an opportunity to install Woody and ended up with a Potato box again. I quickly fixed LILO to let me get back to Windows 2000 so I could e-mail this message. I read over the installation manual included on the Debian CD in both HTML and PDF format with no enlightenment occurring. Mommy, make Debian give me Woody! Bahahaha -- Yes, I'm almost at the point of tears, at least metaphorically speaking. Robert P.S. Nor can I find a document entitled "How To Select Potato / Woody / Sid" on GNU/Debian. P.P.S. Could you please send me your e-mail address again as the previous mail is on my Linux partition.
