[PLUG] Dapper Drake upgrade

[Bruce Kilpatrick]

The interesting thing I noted was that my machine booted.  It is just 
running very slowly.  Could it be that Dapper is just too much for a 933 
dually?



Carla Schroder wrote:

>On Monday 05 June 2006 9:42 pm, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
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>>Carla,
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>>I just did the same thing.  I edited my sources.list to show all dapper.
>>Then I did the apt-get update...apt-get upgrade...apt-get dist-upgrade 
>>thing...then I went and read the Ubuntu wiki...
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>>The last line in the upgrade section says:
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>>EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! Make sure you type  dist-*upgrade*  rather than 
>> *upgrade* . The process will totally hose your machine and render it 
>>*completely unbootable* otherwise.
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>>I think I know why my system is running sooooo slooooowly now.
>>I am currently burning a dapper cd to do a fresh install.
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>That doesn't even make sense, because it's routine Debian maintenance to run 
>apt-get upgrade regularly. I have it in a daily cron job. That's how you get 
>updates and patches without pain, and keep everything current. At what magic 
>point must you stop before running a dist-upgrade? I'm starting to think 
>Ubuntu folks don't understand Debian very well.
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