Live-cd upgrade

The facility to "live-cd' upgrade a sidux installation does not exist. Before proceeding with installing sidux BACK-UP YOUR DATA! including your bookmarks and emails.

It is highly recommended that you have a separate data partition. The benefits in terms of disaster recovery, stability of your data are unmeasurable.

Therefore your $HOME becomes a place where basic application configurations are kept. or to put it another way, a container for applications to store their settings.

ALWAYS BACK-UP YOUR DATA including your bookmarks and emails!

Hard Disk Installed Dist-Upgrade

You have upgraded your install with the latest sidux Live Cd and now you want to ensure that you have the latest versions of packages and security updates from here on in.

With sidux its called 'dist-upgrade' and is done over the net

The only supported method to dist-upgrade is as follows:

NEVER EVER do a dist-upgrade nor upgrade whilst in X
Always check Current Warnings on the sidux main web site. These warnings are there for a reason because of the nature of unstable and updated on a daily basis. Log out of KDE. Go to Textmode by doing Ctrl+Alt+F1 ; logon as root, and then in type init 3 ; apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade ;run fix-fonts ; run fglrx or nvidia script if xorg updated and you have such a graphics adapter otherwise do ; init 5 && exit [NEVER DIST-UPGRADE [or UPGRADE] with adept or synaptic]

For new users, the !h2 d-u-fixes script may provide help by semi-automating the dist-upgrade process.

Content last revised UTC 31/01/2007 1500hrs UTC