Bug#522312: debian-installer: Lenny install image for AMD64 puts "etch" in /etc/apt/sources.list
Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
I just downloaded the installer image for Lenny, called:
debian-500-amd64-netinst.iso
and used it to do a clean install on an AMD system. It all seemed to run
fine but at the end I found I had a hybrid Lenny/Etch system. The kernel
was 2.6.26 (indicating Lenny) but the version of OpenOffice.org was 2.0
(indicating Etch).
Investigating /etc/apt/sources.list I found that the embedded release name
was "etch" where it should have been "lenny", meaning that I seemed to have
got a Lenny base system with Etch used for everything else.
Editing /etc/apt/sources.list to change the system to lenny and then doing
an "apt-get dist-upgrade" seems to have cured it.
The only slightly odd thing which I did during the installation was to use
a local Debian mirror (which carries Etch, Lenny and Squeeze) instead of
a public one.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-liberty15 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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