This is Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.

This file gives installation and upgrade instructions.
It was last updated on August 11, 1997.


--- Installing a new System.

Installation instructions can be found in ftp:disks-i386/current/install.html
(read with your web browser) or disks-i386/current/install.txt (plain text).


--- Upgrading from earlier versions of Debian.

You can upgrade automatically via FTP or from CD or disk.  With this
release, it is very important to upgrade our "dpkg" package tool
before you upgrade other packages.  To do this, change into the
stable/binary-i386/base directory on your CD, or use FTP or some other
means to get the ".deb" files mentioned below.  Then as root, run
these commands:

    dpkg --clear-avail
    dpkg --install ldso_*.deb
    dpkg --install libc5_*.deb
    dpkg --install dpkg_*.deb dpkg-ftp_*.deb
    dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin

You will now be able to upgrade the entire system automatically using
our "dselect" tool.  If you are connected to the Internet you will not
need to retrieve any other files manually.  "dselect" will
automatically retrieve and install the rest of Debian 1.3 for you.

If you upgrade from Debian 1.1 or earlier on a system where Debian 1.2
has never been installed, you can expect to run dselect about 4 times
to complete the installation.  There will be a number of error
messages leading to termination of "dselect", but these are an
artifacts of the package order and your skipped upgrade to 1.3, and
can be safely ignored.


--- Updates to version 1.3.1

As the need arises, we will update packages in Debian 1.3.1 and
increment the last digit in the version number.  There will always be
a symbolic link, for example Debian-1.3.1.r3, in the top level
indicating the latest version.  The first line in the file ChangeLog
also gives the latest version.

The file ChangeLog lists all changes to Debian 1.3.1 - the updated
files and the reasons for the change.  The simplest way to upgrade is
to use the ftp method of dpkg to fetch the updated packages
automatically.  If you wish to download the new files by hand, simply
extract them from the ChangeLog with this command:
    grep '^stable' ChangeLog

The directory ../bo-updates contains potential fixes to 1.3.1, files
that may become part of the next version of 1.3.1.  They are placed
there so that they may be well tested before final inclusion.