Forcing a clean reinstall

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Graham Leggett wrote:
>Jonathan Singer wrote:
>
>> After making a shambles of my system trying to upgrade 2.1 to 2.2 with
>> apt-get, I'd like to start over from scratch.
>
>Yellowdog is a Redhat based system, aptget is a Debian based tool - I
>would imagine that if you tried to use aptget it would have toasted your
>system nicely.

 I haven't tried it yet, but I have heard that many people have used
apt-get successfully. Check out this page for instructions (posted by Dan
Burcaw):

 http://www.terraplex.com/~dburcaw/upgrading.txt

Cheers,

Chris

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