[Herefordshire] Via Velocity NIC

[John Hedges]

Hi Andrew

Good to hear you've got a working NIC.

Sarge is testing. Each new release gets a name and then progresses
through unstable, testing, stable. Currently woody is stable, sarge
testing and sid is unstable. Being on the verge of a new stable release
(OK so it's a very wide verge) when sarge will become stable, testing
(sarge) should be fairly well ironed out by now.

If you always want testing you need to put 'testing' in your
/etc/apt/sources and occasionally do a dist-upgrade when a release is
made:

    deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

If you want to follow a particular distribution then you put the
distribution name in the sources file.

    deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free

I prefer the second way as it gives you the option to upgrade when it
suits you rather than when a release is made, but as releases are rare
this is not such a problem.

Cheers

John


On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:49:15PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Gave up with the nic and ended up putting in an old trusty Realtek which
> got detected straight away.  I have built myself the relevant OS running
> 2.4 (I couldn't go above this as I run a screen reader called Speakup
> which has issues on 2.6 currently).  Now need to get the rest of the
> packages.  I do have Sarge CDs that I got from Box, but am now trying to
> get the CDs working.  One thing that worries me a bit is that currently
> using Sarge distro, however, when using bits of apt-get it mentions the
> testing release?  If you do apt-get dist-upgrade would this upgrade to
> the testing release or just the newer version of Sarge (though this is
> not feasible on my connection).
> 
> Thanks.
> Andrew.
> 
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