[brlug-general] dist-upgrade is the way to go.

[willhill]

apt-get dist-upgrade blew all of those problems away.

Another nice fix is the AMD init ramfs problem. I had this problem few months 
ago.  It required a reinstall if you tried to install an AMD kernel upgrade.  
That's gone and I now have a nice shiny k7 kernel that can see the extra gig 
of RAM I bought the day I replaced the stock 486 kernel.

On Thursday 19 April 2007 12:15 am, willhill wrote:
> I've had problems with usb devices and hal.  KDE did something a couple of
> months ago and non root mounting broke.  Upgrading did not fix it, though I
> did not try dist-upgrade and lots of KDE stuff was held back.  I will not
> recommend Etch to newbies until I know how to fix this.