stupid apt problem

[John Mizell]

you should just download
ftp://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/redhat-release-0.94-2.rpm from this or any ftp site with the test core files and then do up2date and it should load the updates for you.
 
John Mizell

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 22:13, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> I just decided to update my RH 9 laptop to fedora 9.0.93.  I've used
> apt-rpm many times, so familiar with that, just never done an apt-get
> dist-upgrade before.  So I download the Fedora apt RPM, install ok, but
> try to apt-get update from any sites, and I get a lot of:
> "Failed to fetch ftp://.... Size mismatch" errors
> 
> and of course then trying apt-get dist-upgrade fails miserably.  When
> doing an apt-get dist-upgrade you put the version you want to upgrade
> to, right?  (/pub/linux/fedora/fedora redhat/9.0.93/i386 os stable
> updates)
> 
> I know this is probably something stupid...or is it easier to download
> the .iso's and do it that way?  It seemed from the webpage the "proper"
> way to do it was via apt so I thought I'd try.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
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John Mizell <jrmizell at earthlink.net>