alternative cd for edgy

[Mark Warner]

MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
> I have just burned the Alternative CD for Edgy.
> If I use it to install Edgy will it overwrite everything I already I
> have on my laptop including my sources.list file?
> I ask because at the moment I have Dapper on my Laptop and made
> changes to that file in order to get Orca at a time when getting Orca
> was difficult because at that time I got Luke's packaged version of
> Orca which might explain why I couldn't upgrade from Dapper to Edgy
> using apt. What I am trying to say is will the etc/apt/sources.list
> file be modified to the default file for Edgy, overwriting any
> changes I had made in Dapper to obtain the packaged version of Orca
> from Luke's web site when I do an install of Edgy from the
> Alternative CD with a fresh etc/apts/sources.list file like you might
> get if you had done an installation of Edgy without upgrading from
> Dapper to Edgy or will my changes in that file be kept whether they
> affect that file or not which may cause problems?

Comment out the added repos in your sources.list file.

Then update using the Update Manager.

You /can/ update from the Alternate CD with the Update Manager, but me,
I'd do it online.

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Mark Warner
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