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Re: Upgrading to potato



> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running 'apt-get distupgrade' to upgrade my slink to potato. But
> apt-get only gets debs, and what's about the base system (the tgz) ? How
> do I install it without losing data/configuration of my system ?

Others have answered this; just to say that you may wish to do
  apt-get update
first, before the apt-get dist-upgrade, to actually get the info.
(And you'll obviously need to modify your sources.list.)

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg


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