Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Re: [BLUG] newbee

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:16:45PM -0500, Steven Black wrote:
> To my knowledge there is only one way to update a Debian-based system,
> and that is online. Booting from CD is fine if you need to repartition

I meant to say "live" instead of "online".

> and reinstall, but to my knowledge Debian has never explicitly supported
> booting from a CD to perform an update. Sure, it might work, but you'd
> be better off doing it live and using the CD as a package store.

I used the correct word later, so hopefully it made sense.

Cheers,
Steven Black

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