Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup

> How can I upgrade Debrian from slint to potato? Please give me detailed
> instruction. (My friend installed slint for me directly from internet.)
> It is very scary to me to ugrade kernal and ugrade all installed
> modules. thanks

There are instructions on debian's website on doing this. But, way to do it basically is to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file as root and change reference to stable to frozen. Then run "apt-get update" to update the list of packages in the frozen tree. Then do "apt-get dist upgrade". You should probably subscribe to the debian user's mailing list and read up on any issues doing this (if some actually exist). I do my debian installs using the latest boot diskette and driver images and go from there.

Michael Perry

documented on: 2000.05.28

apt-get dist-upgrade instead?