Re: How to upgrade stable - testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:40:48AM -0700, tluxt wrote: Err, I think I would rather have titled that message: How to accomplish a fresh install of today's Woody system. rather than How to upgrade ..., because I the procedure I gave there (and want) is about doing a fresh install. Of

Re: How to upgrade stable - testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread tluxt
Thanks Ben for your prompt reply! :) --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) I don't suggest upgrading to woody yet. Wait a day or two for the new glibc and

Re: How to upgrade stable - testing today, avoiding the libdb.so.3 bug.

2001-08-21 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:14:10PM -0700, tluxt wrote: Thanks Ben for your prompt reply! :) --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, to do a fresh install of woody, you download the woody boot-floppies, and install woody. That's pretty simple, right? :) I don't suggest

stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I decided to investigate the move from stable to testing. I thought it would be as simple as editing the sources to replace stable with testing. I did that, and ran dselect to browse through the changes and found a couple of problems 1: Its plan to upgrade my stable system generates some

Re: stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread Dmitry Astapov
KO stable with testing. I did that, and ran dselect to browse through KO the changes and found a couple of problems KO 1: Its plan to upgrade my stable system generates some dependency KO issues. It tells me that; KO lwrsed recommends libnss-lwres libnss-lwres does not appear to be KO

Re: stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Did you do the update list of available packages step before trying to proceed with select or install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith O'Connell) writes: Hi, I decided to investigate the move from stable to testing. I thought it would be as simple as editing the sources to replace stable with

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
RP If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and RP exclusions, let me know. Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with yours. I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RP If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and RP exclusions, let me know. Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with yours. I want to mirror

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ilya Martynov
I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now next rules. Are they right? --exclude source/ --exclude pool/ CW pool/ contains binaries for i386 among other things, at least for CW testing/unstable now and I imagine stable in the future, so you'll have CW to be more careful than

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:56:42PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: I want to mirror only i386 and only binaries. I've now next rules. Are they right? --exclude source/ --exclude pool/ CW pool/ contains binaries for i386 among other things, at least for CW testing/unstable now and I

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-29 Thread Ron Peterson
Ilya Martynov wrote: RP If you'd like more precise info about my rsync inclusions and RP exclusions, let me know. Can you post your rsync inclusions and exclusions? I've recently tried to setup local mirror and I'd like to compare mine rsync setup with yours. You can view my mirror

debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Brendan J Simon
I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? Is it automagically updated ??? Diskspace required for each of these Debian

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

2001-03-28 Thread Ron Peterson
Brendan J Simon wrote: I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? Is it automagically updated ??? I mirror debian,

SOLVED!: Upgrade Problems (Stable-Testing)

2001-02-26 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Here's how I ironed out the problems in my system after upgrading from Potato to Woody: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [250201 21:56]: I was pretty sure everything other than my GUI and Sound was working properly based on watching the screen messages during boot and perusing dmesg. The only problem I

Upgrade Problems (Stable-Testing)

2001-02-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Good evening everyone, This is my first experience with upgrading from one version to another. I love the debian apt-get tool; for routine upgrades and keeping my system in top order with security updates it has been the greatest help. The upgrade from stable to testing has not been fun so

Dual boot stable testing on 1 hard disk?

2001-02-07 Thread Ross Smith
I'd like to set up the following on hda: (potato) /boot (hda1, 5M) / (hda6, 4G) (woody) /boot (hda5, 5M) / (hda7, 4G) (shared) /home (hda8, 20G) (swap)(hda9, 256M) and dual-boot between them. Is this possible? If so, how? Is this the smartest way to accomplish the objective of

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