How to upgrade debian woody to Sarge?

**johnsmith01** · 07-15-2005, 02:13 AM

can anybody help me with this , i have been googling for 2 days and i have not found the answer to his if someone could explain step by step how to do it i would appreciate it

**UnderScore** · 07-15-2005, 03:47 AM

I was under the impression that you were already running Debian sarge.
Which numerical Debian release are you currently running?
Woody is 3.0r0 through 3.0r5
Sarge is 3.1r0a.

As for upgrading from Woody to Sarge, see the release notes http://www.us.debian.org/releases/st...rading.en.html as it covers the entire topic.

**johnsmith01** · 07-15-2005, 05:33 AM

i really don't know what i'm running i supposed i was running woody , then someone told me it was sarge then it was woody again ,
the source list seemd to be downloading from the stable ,mirror and not from the testing

btw that tutorial doessn't tell alot about modifying the sources.list to download from the debian mirror , either way i made the update and upgraded to woody but the line of the security packages wasnt modified in the sourceslist and i wanna know if i did wrong not chanding the stable/update tio
testing/update

**UnderScore** · 07-15-2005, 03:40 PM

either way i made the update and upgraded to woody but the line of the security packages wasnt modified in the sourceslist and i wanna know if i did wrong not chanding the stable/update tio testing/update

You are confusing the releases & their names.

Please do the following at a command line:

Code:

cat /etc/issue

On my machine I get:

Code:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l

Based on this, I know my machine is running Debian 3.1 'stable' codenamed (sarge).

If you get 3.1 you are running sarge. If you get 3.0 you are running woody.

I explained how Debian releases are named at http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtop...?p=87525#87525 and see also the official Debian description at http://www.debian.org/releases/ and a timeline of releases at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Debian_releases

Once you have straightened out the naming, then you can figure out if/what you need to edit or upgrade.

**johnsmith01** · 07-15-2005, 11:03 PM

Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable \n \l

?

**UnderScore** · 07-15-2005, 11:40 PM

When & how did you install Debian? What CD ISO did you use download? What kernel are you running? To check it:
uname -a
or
dpkg-query -l | grep kernel-image
Debian 3.0 - 3.0r5 woody had the 2.2.x kernel by default but you were also able to use the 2.4.x kernel.
Debian 3.1r0 sarge has the 2.4.27 kernel by default but you were also able to use the 2.6.8 kernel.

If you have just upgraded from stable to testing & installing packages from testing/unstable repositories, then you are running from the developmental branch of Debian in what will eventually be Debian 3.2 codenamed etch.