upgrading from 5.10 to 6.06

[Richard]

> On 06/05/31 15:57 (GMT-0400) Julio Biason apparently typed:
> 
>> On 5/31/06, Richard <cms01 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>>> how does one upgrade from breezy to dapper ?
>>> what is the simplest and easiest method ?
> 
>> Edit /etc/apt/source.list and change the references to "breezy" to
>> "dapper". Then do
> 
>> sudo apt-get update
> 
>> and
> 
>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> I took this route, without first bothering to see what other options
> exist on the wiki. It seems to have gone mostly OK, but probably
> wouldn't have if I hadn't intervened. I followed along periodically
> running df /. When freespace approached 0, I started looking for things
> to delete in /var/cache/apt/archives, and deleted various things dated
> last year or prior. As space again approached 0, I'd delete yet more,
> including the KDE 3.4.3 packages, and the big OO2 base package. I seem
> to have a working dapper, but with with/without the following.
> 
> 1-still only the old 2.6.12 breezy kernel
> 2-still over 600M in /var/cache/apt/archives
> 3-only 3% freespace on /
> 4-haven't tried to open OO2
> 
> What are all those packages doing still in /var/cache/apt/archives?
> Shouldn't I be using a more recent kernel? If so, how should I get one?


I just backup, and trash all, and re-installed dapper,
from a dvd iso image.

Rich