Debian et al: was re: Mandriva

[Mike Reinehr]

On Saturday 14 May 2005 05:40 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > ? ? ? ? A couple other nice features are a really good installer and the
> > ability to select from one of a half-dozen installation profiles:
> > minimal, server, desktop, etc.
>
> Yeah, but I'm really into free distributions. Also, how does Libranet
> stack up in terms of upgrading from one release to the next?

Once installed, Libranet can be incrementally upgraded like any other Debian 
system. Libranet provides a customized apt sources.list and a system 
management utility called "adminmenu" which makes upgrading from the Libranet 
archive almost effortless. Alternatively, you can edit sources.list to and 
upgrade from any Debian mirror with the standard apt tools.

The Libranet installer doesn't appear to offer an option to upgrade an 
existing Libranet system to v3.0 and I've never tried. (I use it on 
workstations only and just do a new install to an alternate root partition 
and then edit fstab to mount my existing /home partition.) "Theoretically", I 
suppose you could edit the /etc/apt/* files and then do an dist-upgrade but I 
definitely would want to try it on a non-critical system first, before trying 
it on a live system and, it definitely would require a reboot, at the least.

Cheers!

cmr

PS	I don't own any stock in Libranet, am not selling anything, and make no 
recommendations -- just report my own experience and opinions. ;-)
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