Re: Install "testing" from scratch?
After having apt install dist-update totally bonk a
system (afterward neither apt nor dselect would run
without generating errors, and dselect finally removed
enough of the base config that it wouldn't boot), I
nuked, paved, and did pretty much what Steve
suggested, except that I had a Potato CD. During the
apt setup routine, I added the CD, added the default
http debian.org site, then appended the following
lines from the http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/
page:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main
contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US
testing/non-US main non-free
If the installer doesn't let you do this for some
reason, you can ctrl-F2 into another window, log in as
root and edit /etc/apt/sources.list directly, then
ctrl-F1 back to the installer.
My reasoning was that packages that haven't been
updated since my 2.2r3 would get installed from the
CD, packages more recent than the CD that are the same
in potato and woody would get installed from the
online potato dist, and the latest packages would get
installed from online the woody dist.
The install seems to have gone well. The only problem
I'm aware of is that vi doens't want to run (something
about a bad wrapper, vi-base or elvis-tiny not found)
but I use vim anyway so no big deal. I used the
advanced (dselect) method to finish the install.
Anyone have comments on this technique?
Paul Mackinney
pmackinney@home.com
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:31:22AM -0600, Gary
Hennigan uttered:
>> I suppose I can install a bare-bones potato and
dist-upgrade to
>> testing but that's an additional step I would
rather avoid if
>> possible.
>>
>Install a base potato syetem, and when you reboot,
ask to edit sources.list
>manually and put 'woody' or 'testing' in there,
instead of 'stable'.
>Oh, and don't forget to disable the security line.
>
>-- Steve
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