Debian unstable upgrades, always an interesting pastime!
I did a lazy/huge Debian unstable upgrade on my second-best home PC today (from fsn.hu rsync’d DVD images, via jigdo); took me about 3 hours to pull off in a gradual procedure, as even I am not that nuts to just apt-get dist-upgrade while I goof off somewhere else! My PC managed once more to survive the process relatively unscathed, although predictably the ATI driver -> X-Server -> Gnome chain failed to init, so I have to do some fglrx driver magic again. At least the hard cases are still predictable.
Looking around, I found some cunning advice on installing ATI drivers on Debian, as well as some precompiled .debs and associated HOWTO. The ATI drivers were hidden of course. On the down side, the debian-installer failed to read the package files, so these DVDs are only useful for updating an existing installation. From what I saw, though, it seemed to be more complicated than the plain old woody version (the one without progress bars). It did provide a fully localized installation for greek, but no keyboard. Also, devfs seems to be acting up in regards to /dev/chm/root (WTF?), will see if updating sysvinit will fix things.
