On 2/14/06, Jim Crumley <crumley at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:50:57AM -0600, Pete Daniels wrote: > > As an aside, "apt-get dist-upgrade" is, from all I've heard, a generally > > unreliable way to do business. When Dapper releases in April, I'd > > reccommend a backup of /home and a fresh install. > > In what context did you hear that "apt-get dist-upgrade" was > unreliable? Just for Ubuntu?<snip> My experience is that it works better for Debian itself rather than Debian based distros. The two I''ve blown up are Mepis and Ubuntu.