Re: On your upgrade from woody to sarge

From: Gayle Lee Fairless (fairless_at_hiwaay.net)
Date: 12/13/04

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    Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:27:46 -0600 (CST)
To: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc@ruralcomm.com>

    On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

    > Not sure what you mean. I put "testing" in the sources.list which I thought
    > would get the Sarge. Running upgrade several times never got away from
    > 2.4.18-bf2.4 Woody. Now trying using pkg-upgrade as apt conditioner but my
    > /var directory isn't large enough to contain the download. Attempting to
    > use a symlnk to a partition with enough free space but its not working
    > either.
    >
    > Leonard Chatagnier
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Gayle Lee Fairless" <fairless@hiwaay.net>
    > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
    > Cc: <lenc@ruralcomm.com>
    > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 5:57 PM
    > Subject: On your upgrade from woody to sarge
    >
    >
    > > Did you change your kernel version?
    > >
    > > I'm asking because I'll probably upgrade from woody to sarge when
    > > sarge finally goes stable. I guess that upgrading the kernel to a 2.6
    > > might also be an improvement. Right now I tend to use KDE with gdm. I
    > > hope that the resolution can be more easily managed, too. And I hope to
    > > use my usb HP psc1210 better as well as the HP 697C on my parallel port.
    > >
    > >
    > > --
    > > (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
    > > Linux Gcomm 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
    > > PS. I am subscribed to the digest but not the list.
    > >
    > >
    > >
    >
    >

            I was wondering if the apt-get dist-upgrade would also upgrade the
    kernel, too. Sourceforge makes it sound easy. 

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Gayle Lee Fairless
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