[H-GEN] Upgrading Debian from Potato

[Sandra Mansell]

Geoff Shang wrote:
> 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?

I went from Woody to Sarge by just doing a dist-upgrade. I was quite 
prepared for things to break but was hoping they wouldn't (as the cd-rom 
drive on that computer is broken and it's the only box in the house with 
a working floppy drive). Nothing did break, in fact it was the cleanest 
apt-get I've ever done! I've seen an ISO image called 
"debian-update-3.1r1-i386-1.iso" and a 2nd one similarly titled but not 
sure what they do. Perhaps look that up on the website to see if it 
contains what you need?

That said, I do tend to agree with Greg's suggestion of backing up all 
the important data and reinstalling from scratch. I do plan to do this 
in the future, the in-place upgrade was just a temporary measure until I 
am ready to put a more powerful box in place and retire this old one for 
spare parts (it's a k6-2-300).

Sandra.
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