[H-GEN] Upgrading Debian from Potato

[Geoff Shang]

Hi all,

I figure there are enough Debian gurus here to make it unnecessary to 
subscribe to one of the Debian lists just to ask this question.

I have a box here running Potato.  The box at the other end of the table is 
running Woody, and a third box is going to have Sarge installed in the 
coming days.  This seems rather silly to me, so I've decided it's time I 
upgraded everything to Sarge.

This should go easily with Woody.  There are clear steps on debian.org for 
doing this, including upgrading Aptitude first, etc.  but I'm not so sure 
about the Potato box.

This box is running Potato, with all updates as far as I can remember, plus 
a few back-ported packages, mainly ones for supporting IP Masquerading 
under kernel 2.4.x.  My question is, do I have to perform the upgrade to 
Woody first, then upgrade to Sarge, or is there a quicker or slower route 
that I should take?  Are there any particular gotchas I should be aware of?

Cheers,
Geoff.


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