How to upgrade from sarge to etch

**ikkem** · 08-07-2006

I wanted to ask how to upgrade from Sarge to Etch I have tried compiling the kernel and setting the sources list to testing....it did not work out until now I did not have have any succes yet if someone could please give information....

thanks in advance....

**deanlinkous** · 08-07-2006

Simply change your sources.list from stable/sarge to testing/etch.
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
and that is all there is to it.
The change from xfree to xorg was a mess and a lot of people are having problems with it so be aware of that.

**ikkem** · 08-07-2006

I guess you also have to upgrade the kernel (linux-image and linux-headers) or compile a new kernel before you do apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.And also choose Lilo as your bootloader.I also got a udev dependancy error it could not be installed....
I am missing something though....

someone please post a how to or a link to a how to for sarge to etch upgrade I tried google but have not had any luck yet....

**deanlinkous** · 08-07-2006

Why do you think that? Are you getting error messages? Can you post them?

**ikkem** · 08-07-2006

I reinstalled sarge so I cannot provide the error messages at this moment....
could someone please offer any sugestions that I could try out....
When I tried upgrading to etch last year there were no major problems and it worked out fine but now it is much more complex and X keeps breaking among other things....

**deanlinkous** · 08-07-2006

Uh ok. If you are reinstalling then why not just install etch to begin with. That would certainly take care of the X problems, if any.

Th process I listed is how you upgrade from sarge to etch. Good Luck!

**ikkem** · 08-07-2006

thanks for posting it but I used the same proces since last year so that is not new to me now I get udev dependancy errors among other things so maybe the proces has changes so please if someone has something to ad to mix could they please post it maybe I overlooked something....

thanks in advance....

**deanlinkous** · 08-07-2006

What udev dependency errors are you getting. Have you tried purging udev and installing udev before trying the upgrade process? I do know there was a bug a couple months ago that had to do with udev not being updated. The process to upgrade doesn't change but depending on bugs you may need to correct something before/after to make it go smoothly.

**gg234** · 09-19-2006

take a look at this how to upgrade srage to debian

**gtmtnbiker98** · 09-19-2006

What I can't figure out is if you are reinstalling, why are you taking an upgrade path? Why not download and install etch and forego sarge?

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