Re: Woody not ready, methinks
The safest way to transition from potato to woody is not to install
woody over potato, but to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The upgrade
capability is what distinguishes Debian from the rest of the pack.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:16:10PM +0200, DSC Extra wrote:
> This is me, having gotten my email back up and running on my Win98 system and
> no longer bound to webmail. Same guy.
>
> Anyhow, I got the tarball, and reinstalled -- got error 1 again.
>
> [Attempt 5] Went ahead and tried reinstalling with minimum optional
> configurations,
> just SCSI and LPR. Everything else left alone. Still got Error 1. Submitted
> bug report... it's my guess that this kind of a bug with debootstrap would be
> called release-critical, [but I'm not a developer, I could be wrong.]
>
> I'm thinking... if you have Potato running, now might not be a good time to
> try and install Woody. Especially not if you are depending on your system right
> now.
>
>
> Michael Rudmin wrote:
>
> > I was hoping to get Baltic fonts, and I had just
> > installed, and I read that Debian is advising new
> > installers to install Woody instead of Potato. So I
> > figured why not reinstall.
> >
> > First, let me preface by naming my system. 800 Mhz
> > PII, *slow* permanent web link, everything else
> > normal.
> > Also, my weblink often drops connections, resulting in
> > crashed downloads. I can tell by the size whether it
> > is successful or not.
> >
> > I decided to download the disk images.
> >
> > Attempt 1- Downloaded 20 images. Took a few retries,
> > but that's what a slow permanent link is good for.
> > Installed them on my hard disk on a vfat partition.
> > Went to install. Whoops! There is no provision for
> > using disk images from the hard disk. Have either
> > tarball it or RAWRITE it. [*That*, IMHO, should
> > change.)
> >
> > Attempt 2-RAWrote the disks. Went to install. Got to
> > Disk 11 -- it was no good. Had to bomb out and try
> > again.
> >
> > Attempt 3-ReRawrote Disk 11. Went back to install
> > again. Got through the entire loading procedure.
> > Computer created Tar ball out of disks, went to
> > validate it, and discovered -- invalid Tarball.
> >
> > Attempt 4-trying the impossible: downloading a Tarball
> > over Windoze and my slow line.
> >
> > It looks to me like Woody is not quite ready for
> > install.
> >
> > P.S. If you reply to this cc: me over at Mike_Rudmin
> > "at" yahoo.com, or I won't see it. Not that I have
> > to. [@ sign was spelled out to jinx spammers].
> >
> > Option 3-
> >
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