Re: How can i install woody?
* Paul E Condon (pecondon@quiknet.com) [Dec 09. 2001 23:42]:
> > 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.
>
> I gathered from this exchange that exchange that there is a way of installing woody
> that involves the web and does not use base-x floppies. So I tried it.
> Today, it didn't seem to be confusing. But it didn't work. Here is what happened:
>
> 1> Pretty much like Potato install at the beginning. No problems.
> I tell it about network card and ppp. I don't recall it asking about modem.
>
> 2> Get to the place where it asks where it should go for the packages to install. It
> gives several options, including web. I choose web.
During my install, it only gave me the option of installing from a local
hard disk (I think), and CD-ROM. This is after I told it about ppp, as
well.
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-Brian Clark
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