could some one give me some kind of idea of how much net time and what speed they are on.
so that I could decide if this is possible for me to do
thanks
This was a fantastic way for me to transition to a full debian install. Thanks so much!
update:
I used this approach 4 times; on the 4th, a week after the other three, apt-get dist-upgrade downloaded everything, but then failed because of perl problems, spitting out stuff like along the lines of
debconf: Perl may be unconfigured [...]
Googling stuff suggested that perl was essential to the apt-get process, but that it also got hosed during the apt-get process, probably because stuff at Debian.org had changed some dependencies...
I am not sure what exactly fixed it (an hour of messing around, basically), but in the end I know it had to do with my manually installing perl from the
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/perl/
site -- at least enough to really break it by running dkpg -i on anything that had "perl" it (!), then running dkpg -f install to finally wake up and fix it! (initially, dkpg -f install would fail like everything else).
I know that's not a lot of detail, but if someone else gets in that position, it will be better than anything I found on the net. Moral of the story seems to be that you can get in to a catch-22 situation when updating perl, and that by manually installing at deb or two, you can get dkpg -f install working enough again to actually fix it for you.
could some one give me some kind of idea of how much net time and what speed they are on.
so that I could decide if this is possible for me to do
thanks
I have DSL -- at around 170kps, downloading took about an hour, I guess. I can't imagine doing it with a dial-up connection.Originally Posted by spottyrover
Hi i've tried to follow your upgrade to unstable but I do not seem to be getting anywhere
I hope someone can help
I am using a clean install of knoppix 3.6
installed to hard drive by sudo knoppix-installer
I cahanged the source list to
# /etc/apt/sources.list for Knoppix
# If you want to do a "full upgrade", you should first
# upgrade the Packages from Debian/unstable (KDE & Co.)
# before doing a (dist-)upgrade for Debian/testing.
#
# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
# Security updates for "stable"
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free
## Stable
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Stable Sources
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Testing
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# Testing Sources
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# Unstable
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Unstable Sources
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# Experimental
#deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
# Experimental Sources
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
# Java
#deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian woody main non-free
#deb ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/debian unstable main non-free
## More wireless stuff
# deb http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody madwifi
# deb-src http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody madwifi
# deb http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody airo-mpi
# deb-src http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public woody airo-mpi
# deb ftp://ftp.tcweb.org/pub/debian unstable main
# deb-src ftp://ftp.tcweb.org/pub/debian unstable main
## NX stuff
# deb http://www.kalyxo.org/debian/ experimental main
# ndiswrapper
# deb http://rigtorp.se/debian unstable/
# deb-src http://rigtorp.se/debian unstable/
## Blades Repository (pppoeconf & co)
# deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./
# deb-src http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing ./
## deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
## Knoppix special packages resource at LinuxTag HQ
# deb http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix ./
# deb-src http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix ./
# deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool gcc
# deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool gcc
#steve
#Official-Stable
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib non-free
#Official-testing
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free
#Official-UnStable
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
and the apt.conf to:
APT:efault-Release "unstable";
APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;
Apt::Get::Purge;
then I did a apt-get update
with the result of
root@box:~# apt-get update
Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out
etc
could some one tell me what I am dooing wrong
by the way I can surf the net ok with adsl via a lan so I assume that my connection is ok
thanks
sorry.... i am a newbie.... how do i change the line APT:efault-Release "testing"; to APT:efault-Release "unstable";. ..... my internet connection is pretty fucked up and i cannot get it detected before logging in to kde and configuring it myself...... so i cant log in console and do like what the instructions said....... so i edited sources.list while in kde.... but im still finding out how to change that line.... anyone can help me ?
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