On Saturday 10 February 2007 19:49, Dinesh Shah wrote:
Hi!
I am finally able to install Debian Sarge (3.1) on my system. Here is the system config
MoBo: MSI - K8MM-V CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ MEM: 512 MB HDD: 40 GB Mextor SATA CD/DVD: Samsung Combo
Now I am thinking of upgrading the Sarge to Etch.
Added following repository to source.lst
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian etch main contrib
done
# apt-get update
Now
# apt-get upgrade
Tells me it will download 75 (71.8MB) upgraded packages
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Selects 737 upgraded, 345 newly installed, 55 to remove and 2 not upgraded and will download 667MB. :-(
Do you think my system will survive this upgrade?
It will. But there is a very small chance that u may have to intervene manually, usually with dpkg -i --force-overwrite <some package>. Or even manually opening the deb and copying required files if u are drunk. ( i am sober right now).
Is there any way I can selectively upgrade only important packages like X11?
You could but it could be a very very long night .
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/en/quick-reference.txt
should help to do the above and bail out if neccessary.