Re: Thanks, Re: Is it possible: Built-in Intel Wireless iwp2200 on Sarge 2.4 (Thinkpad R50e)

[jlbelmonte <jlbelmonte@gmail.com>]

Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 20 April 2006 15:06, Bakki Kudva wrote:
>   
> > A tangential question. I have done netinstalls for all of my machines
> > which are running Sarge stable. I'd like to run unstable for desktop
> > as you do. The question is, since there is no netinstall cd for
> > unstable do you do an install from the stable netinstall and then do a
> > dist-upgrade? This seems like a round about way and when I did try a
> > dist-upgrade on my laptop it borked.
> >     
>
> Best is to either:
> - use an Etch _netinst_ installation CD and then dist-upgrade, or
> - use an Etch _businesscard_ CD, boot that in expert mode and select
>   unstable after selecting a mirror.
>
> Both are available from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer.
>   
just one more tip.

First use net installer , do not install xservers or anything, there 
will appear a ncurses dialog box, asking for what you want to install, 
do not select anything.

Then, when the "default system " is installed, change sources to 
testing, do  update && dist-upgrade; After change sources again to 
updgrade to unstable, now you have the system on unstable version 
without updating a lot of big packages like desktop environments or 
xservers or anything (time is money :D).

Now use apt super cow powers to install everything you need.