Re: Bug#174335: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#174335: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#174335: no boot floppies for testing))

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Zefram 

| What would have avoided my confusion would be a note in the release list
| or the installation manual (preferably both) explicitly saying "The
| testing distribution cannot be installed directly; install stable and
| then upgrade.".  I can't currently find on the website any indication
| that testing differs from stable in any respect other than the maturity
| of the code.

But that's not true.  What's true is that you can't install testing or
sid using boot-floppies.  However, boot-floppies are EOL-ed and being
replaced with the new debian-installer.  debian-installer was recently
released in an alpha version, and until it is more stable, I think it
is reasonable that it's not better documented how to get it
installed.

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