Re: Easy potato installation alternative?
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:11:24AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> a friend just asked me where to find a Debian installation CD. She
> probably won't care if potato hasn't the label "stable" yet (and we
> were told to upgrade from slink to potato anyway)... So I'd like to
> know if there's some easy way to install potato without having to
> download hundreds of Megabytes...
>
> I remember that someone once said in this list that installing Corel
> and then upgrading wouldn't work well...
>
> What about Storm? Would it work? (Install it, and then point
> sources.list to debian.org and upgrade?)
>
I upgraded the storm distro to potato a couple of months ago on a test
drive. One of storm's config programs was removed (can't remember
which), but the result was a viable potato system.
John
> I think I can find some unofficial potato CDs at some store
> here... But I'm not sure if these are a good choice.
>
> Thanks,
> J.
>
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