Upgrading in RedHat and Debian?

[Terry D. Cudney]

Thanks Geoff,

	This tips the scales... I'm switching to Debian!

	Actually, I've already installed the base 2.2 system on a partition. I used the 'compact' install method as outlined in the installation manual, downloading diskette images of: boot.bin, root.bin and drivers-1.bin, and a base2.2 .tgz file on another partition. I can now boot this base system from the HD. BUT...
	Now I need some help. the installation manuaal says to use 'DSelect', which looks to be a frontend for the 'apt-get' prog that you mentioned below..
The newarest mirror to me is:
	ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/
So, I put these lines into /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian dists potato main
deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian dists potato main binary-i386
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists potato main disks-i386 current
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists potato main binary-i386

	Still doesn't work. It gives erros when tryig to update the packages list.

Can you tell me the syntax of the /etc/apt/sources.list file? or am I missing something else? Maybe I'd be better to do the whole installation with apt-get? how?
	I have a funcional pppoe link on ADSL through eth0. Have to initialize it manually in another console before running dselect (or apt-get?). No proxy servers involved.

	Will the Debian kernels (v2.1), that are on the speakup ftp site work for installing v2.2? Could I cp one for my LiteTalk into /boot, configure/run lilo and boot up talking from the HD? or just boot from a floppy made for the v2.1 install with speakup on it?

	Any suggestions? Thanks again.



On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Terry:
> 
> Debian is cooler.  What you do is set up the apt package config file called
> /etc/apt/sources.list so that it knows on what FTP sites the distribution
> lives.  This should be the closest one to you wherever possible.  Then you
> just do:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> The first command updates the list of available packages and version
> details, dependancies, etc.  The second upgrades your distribution, either
> to a more up-to-date version of your current release or to the next one,
> depending on what you've put in the sources.list file.  Note that this only
> upgrades packages currently installed on your system.
> 
> You can also do neat things like:
> 
> apt-get install <packagename>
> 
> which will go out to the net and grab and install the requested
> package.  Cool or what?  Of course, you can also use CD's as sources.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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		--terry

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