Re: hamm upgrade

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@donut.mit.edu>]

Mark Tucker <tuckerm@mail.lsc.vsc.edu> writes:
MT> I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink).
MT> I've got 2.1 on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on
MT> the system.  The problem I am having is getting "apt-get
MT> dist-upgrade" to work.  When I run the command (as root) I get the
MT> following error message:
MT> 
MT> Updating package status cache...E: Can't open /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - open (2 No such file or directory)
MT> E: The previous errors apply to a Package Cache File /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
MT> E: You should probably re-run apt-get update

Have you run 'apt-get update', as APT suggests?  That, or running
'Update' under dselect using the APT method, will build the named file 
from information available through dpkg's database.

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