Re: Install "testing" from scratch?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:31:22AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
| The problem is that the new workstations will be installed from
| scratch and the other two systems I run "testing" on were
| dist-upgraded via apt. I built the "testing" rescue, root and driver-x
| floppies but I can't find a base system in the disks-i386 directory?
| It's been a while since I did an install from scratch but don't I
| still need a base*.tgz file for the base system. Is there not one
| available for testing?
Since testing isn't stable yet (a tautology :-)) there isn't an
installer for it. I think there are some boot-floppies that still
need to be finished (tested and final bugs removed).
| I suppose I can install a bare-bones potato and dist-upgrade to
| testing but that's an additional step I would rather avoid if
| possible.
I would recommend doing this for the first machine, then copying the
installation to the others since they are identical. I have no
experience with the copying step, so maybe others will chime in here
and explain what tools to use and how to do it (I just didn't pay
enough attention the last several times it was explained).
-D
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