Debian aptget upgrade distro

[Mark Street]

A friend just upgraded his debian distro from potato to woody.  He changed
his pointers for apt and ran the aptget update distro command and it
buzzed away downloading the proper packages, etc.  Then along came a nice
little curses based config util to configure several packages....  Then
dumped back to a command prompt.

Kewl....  Well he feels now he has a mixture of potato and woody, the
startx script does not work, although X will start...the X server..no
window manager or desktop.

Another gottcha is that the configuration of lilo requires either a boot
partition install or a MBR ..... he is using a boot disk, so it looks like
a manual install of lilo and edit of lilo.conf

He ran the aptget upgrade distro several times until there we no
messages.....except the lilo configuration script.

Anything I can relay to him for comfort in this time of need.  hehe

Mark