Re: How can i install woody?
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:14, Brian Clark wrote:
> * Paul E Condon (pecondon@quiknet.com) [Dec 09. 2001 01:25]:
>
> > > > > But I don't believe there are any install floppies yet for woody, right?
> > > >
> > > > Wrong: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/
> >
> > I just looked at this link. There are no base-x floppy images. I had noticed
> > this a few days ago and thought they would soon appear. Now I wonder. Is one
> > supposed to use the base-x disks from potato? (Yes, I am a newbie.)
>
I think you are supposed to use the web-based base install, at least
that is what I usually do.
Michel.
> I went through the exact same thing (and I was shocked the woody
> base* images were not there, too). I just created the root and rescue
> floppy for potato, wrote the base*.tgz (for potato) and the drivers.tgz
> to a CD-R and installed potato. From there it's really easy to change
> your sources.list to point to testing and do a apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> (you may want to do apt-get -us dist-upgrade first to make sure
> everything looks OK). I didn't run into too many problems with that
> method.
>
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> -Brian Clark
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