i have potato??

[vhg119]

i recently bought a copy of debian 2.2 from cheapbytes. I received the 2.2R0 version "potato"? Can I upgrade that to 2.2R2 with apt-get? or would it be a big mess... i.e. upgrading Redhat 6.2 to 7.0?
would upgrading it be any different to actually doing a new install of 2.2r2?

[rod]

Install 2.2 R0 and apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, should do it. Since it's all in the stable tree, upgrading should be a snap.

Regards,
Rod

[This message has been edited by rod (edited 08 December 2000).]

[jbstew32]

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gif apt-get http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/cool.gif
Upgrading is one of the things apt-get does best. Just apt-get dist upgrade and it should work beautifully. It is very easy and convenient. I DO NOT suggest doing a clean install or upgrading from a CD because it is more trouble than you have to go through, and upgrading this way can cause problems. Just apt-get. It's easy and it works nicely http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[ColdPack]

This is why Debian is so wonderful.
First, just look at your /etc/apt/sources.list and make sure the ftp sites that say "stable" and "potato" are uncommented.
Then save that if you made any changes.
Then, to upgrade to 2.2r2, simply do "apt-get update" then "apt-get upgrade" (as root while connected to your isp).
In a little bit you will have an up to date and still very stable machine.
Good luck!


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"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?"
---Marilyn Pittman

[vhg119]

wow! thats fast.
whenever i ask questions about redhat.. it seems alot longer to get replies.. but when i ask about debian, damn! thanks guys.

[Evil Jeff]

I've found that debian is more of a religion than a distro... we apt-getters are very eager to apt-get more users too.

Evil Jeff
www.hellincorporated.com (http://www.hellincorporated.com)

PS Anyone tried quanta yet? VERY cool!

[vhg119]

can someone post their sources.list?

[rod]

Keeping in mind I am running unstable and helixcode, here it is:

# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs

#Debian
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
#deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free

#umich.edu
#deb ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/debian unstable main contrib non-free


#KDE
#deb http://kde.tdyc.com/debian potato kde kde2 contrib rkrusty

#Helixcode
deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main

Regards,
Rod

[rod]

Craig's monster list..... WATCH OUT it tuns girls into statues http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

http://www.bsu-hog.org/sources.list

Regards,
Rod

[vhg119]

ok.. i got debian installed but...
my mouse does not work!
i can't get X setup correctly!
I can't find Xconfigurator!
and uh... thats it for now.
thanks guys.

[rod]

You can try XF86Setup and/or gpmconfig for mouse.

Regards,
Rod

[vhg119]

i don't know how to use xf86setup..
can i apt-get XConfigurator?

[Iceman]

Hmmm:

Little doubt on this. In James Joyce's novel Ulysses, Leopold Bloom said "I have potato."

Cheers,

Iceman

[rod]

Is your mouse ps2? if so....


At the CLI log in as root and run gpmconfig.

Do you want to change anything (Y/n)? Y

Do you want to run gpm's mouse-test program (Y/n)? n


Where is your mouse [/dev/mouse]?
/dev/psaux

What type is your mouse (or help) [ps2]?
ps2

Set the responsiveness (normally not needed)
[ ]?
press enter

Repeat protocol (enter 'none' to turn
repeating off) [ ]?
none

Do you want to add any additional arguments
etc.
press enter


Do you want to test this configuration ?
no

That should do it, you may need to reboot.

After mouse is configured you should be ablr to run XF86Setup. <--Case senitive. Don,t change mouse settings you should be good to go there. It's graphical and self explanitory.

Regards,
Rod

Regards,
Rod

[veloctTX]

Anybody try to upgrade Storm linux to debian woody with apt-get? I am very new to debian (actually storm) but I have everything except wheel in netscape and firewall setup. I know that some of the software I'm using has been updated (ie x-chat 1.4.3 comes with storm but I have used 1.6 before, same with Pan, i got 0.8 but have used 0.92.) Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Moved from Mandrake.

[vhg119]

I can't find gpmconfig.
can i apt-get it?
i tried bin sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin

[rod]

Here's a link to the program information:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/gpm.html


apt-get install gpm

Regards,
Rod