Ryan wrote: > 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. > Just as another data point, I did a dist-upgrade of kubuntu on my laptop last fall and had no problems. I ran partimage to save the root partition first, because this sort of thing always makes me nervous. Patrick McCabe