David Gardiner wrote: > Hey all, > > Just thought I'd share some of my recent experiences with doing a fresh > install of debian - testing. > > What I normally do when setting up a fresh install is to plug the disk > into a removable hdd tray that I have but this time I used a usb - ide > interface instead which didn't effect anything except for speed - usb > 1.1 controller. > > I then partition the drive, make the file systems and use debootstrap to > install the base: > > debootstrap --arch i386 --unpack-tarball /tmp/basedebs.tar woody /mnt/ > > and I got basedebs.tar from, I think: > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/base-images-current/basedebs.tar That's amazingly roundabout when you could just use debootstrap to install testing directly, as documented in the installation manual. Using that ancient base tarball will also stop working as soon as oldstable is removed from the archive. -- see shy jo
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