Next version of Debian due when ?

Tuvoc

Tuvoc

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5.05 did not recognise my USB wireless network card, but 5.07 does :) (live CD). I now want to install as dual-boot, but it looks like Debian 6 is due soon ? I'm used to Ubuntu, will I be able to easily upgrade the installation if I go with 5.07 now ?
 
Tuvoc said:
Is it command line, or is it like Ubuntu with a GUI menu item ?
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You might be able to do it through a GUI package manager but it's probably best to use CLI for total control and transparency. It's just a case of copying and pasting a couple of lines.
 
When it's ready.

Their in-place upgrade is good.

If you avoid the command line wherever possible debian is unlikely to be a welcoming environment.
 
Well I have little choice, because Debian is the only Linux distro that I have tried that installs on this particular machine. I never really figured out why. Nothing later than Ubuntu 8.10 installs from the Ubuntu family, and all of the current major distributions fail to install as well. Very odd, it may be the ATI card, but I'm not going to replace that on the chance that it may allow me to install Ubuntu. So Debian it is ;) As long as the new Debian doesn't stop working, I'll be fine :D I might in fact download the latest "squeeze" weekly build just to get a feel for where it is at. I'm not afraid of the command line, I had plenty of that back in my OS/2 days
 
In terms of upgrading, it's just a case of modifying /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the new version of the distribution (in this case that'd mean changing any occurrence of "lenny" to "squeeze") and running "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade" (both as root). It should be a pretty clean process, as it's usually things like changes to the syntax of config files (in various packages) that cause hassle, and you probably won't have made too many of them (I've only had to think about it at all on a few servers I administer, and only because some of them run a ludicrous amount of services running on them).
 
Sinjo said:
In terms of upgrading, it's just a case of modifying /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the new version of the distribution (in this case that'd mean changing any occurrence of "lenny" to "squeeze") and running "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade" (both as root). It should be a pretty clean process, as it's usually things like changes to the syntax of config files (in various packages) that cause hassle, and you probably won't have made too many of them (I've only had to think about it at all on a few servers I administer, and only because some of them run a ludicrous amount of services running on them).
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perfect, thanks
 
Annoyingly, the Debian 5.07 LiveCD works fine, it picks up my wireless network card and I have internet access. But when I actually install the product on the hard drive, network detection fails during the install, and I am left with an installation which doesn't pick up the wireless network card, and no internet access. It seems I am just not meant to use Linux onto this machine ! I have 2 other boxes that dual boot Ubuntu 10.10 x64 just fine, I'll have to be content with that.
 
fluff said:
Might help if you tell us the card...
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Netgear WG111v2 USB wireless adaptor. Works under the Debian LiveCD, and under all versions of Ubuntu since 8.10 or before. When I install Debian I have no internet access but there must be a way to activate it. I've spent days trying to get anything Linux running on this box over the last few months, most frustrating when on other machines it "just works". Debian is the closest I have got - at least it installs !
 
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Ubuntu already supports it out of the box, I have two other machines running Ubuntu and the same adaptor. Debian obviously supports it too, because it works with the Devian LiveCD, it is just when I install Debian to the hard drive that it is not configured. Must be a way to get it working, the drivers must already be there. I'll do some research
 
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