Re: Wanna be a Debian user...
> > installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go
> > directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the
> > rescue and root disks?
install potato/stable, then munge /etc/apt/sources changing
"stable" to "woody" (or "testing") and then
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:48:37PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Install woody using potato boot disks
> ide-pci kernel on ide boot disk enables pci network cards.
>
> 1. Get 3 potato disk set of IDE boot/root(/driver) disks
> 2. Boot with FD
> 3. Fdisk/fsck/mount swap, root, tmp, var, home, usr (no 2.0 support)
> 4. Install OS from network. No need for driver disk(s)
> 5. Configure driver (No action option)
> 6. Install base system from network (base2_2.tgz)
> 7. Configure base system
> 8. Install lilo to /target and keep current multiboot mbr
> 9. Reboot system (Lazy not to create FD)
> 10. MD5 yes, shadow yes, setup also user account
> 11. Edit source by hand (setup 2 entries, change "stable" to "testing")
/etc/apt/sources.list is what you mean, right?
> 12. Install advanced (dselect)
> 13. Select minimum set (exclude emacs, nvi, tex, telnet, talk(d),...)
> 14. Include mc, vim, ... (for convienience)
> 15. Install (download all...)
> 16. All configuration questions = y (replace current)
> 17. exim: select 2 for machine behind FW, 1 for internet machine. (XXX)
> 18. Never erase downloaded file, end smoothly. Wow!
> 19. Check by "Select" console-* and lilo are from potato. Heck, it works.
> 20. I see complain about "DESTROY" method. Annoying but testing.
> 21. Login to root, run dselect --expert, good
> 22. Reboot. missing char-major-10-135 ? (rtc) but fine
> 23. Compiled newer kernel or install standard kernel-image. No more rtc issue.
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