Re: Install Wheezy with Squeeze installer on PowerPC

[Gasha <gasha@pie-dabas.net>]

You can install Squeeze with netinst ISO, and then upgrade needed 
packages before reboot, like latest 1.3.16 yaboot from wheezy/sid.

And then upgrade whatever else.

G

On 08/05/2011 05:41 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 02:17:40PM +0200, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
>    
> > What would I need to do to install Wheezy with a Squeeze installer on
> > PowerPC? I thought of downloading CD1 of the stable powerpc installer
> > and change all udebs into wheezy ones (with its own dist folder
> > "wheezy" and linker "testing" linking to wheezy and add a
> > preseed.cfg file wherein it is made clear that the target system should
> > be testing while using the stable installer:
> >
> > # Suite to install.
> > d-i mirror/suite string testing
> > # Suite to use for loading installer components (optional).
> > d-i mirror/udeb/suite string stable
> >
> > Can you give me some advise if I am going in the right direction or that
> > I am missing something completely.
> >      
> Doesn't the daily build work for you?  Why would you want to use the
> squeeze installer?
>
>