Re: Installing Woody from CD
Hi Dimitri
Do you mean you installed Potato then upgraded to Woody from the Woody
CD's or from the Internet. I have Potato 2.2r3 CDs so that would be an
OK way for me to go (actually I have got Potato installed on my laptop
just to re familarize myself with Debian as we have all been using SuSE
for the past 18 months or so).
Pat
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:29:38AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Patrick Colbeck (pcolbeck@bashq.org) spake thusly:
> > Hi
> >
> > Whats the current status of the Woody CDs. I have downloaded all 8 dated
> > the last week in January, if I actually blow CDs of these will I
> > actually be able to do a clean install of Woody. I just wanted to cjeck
> > before I wasted 8 CDRs.
>
> Netinst image I d/l'ed last week looks for Release file in the wrong
> place (couple of dir levels up from where the file actually is), so
> you can't install the base system. Without that you can't install
> lilo & make your box bootable. (Shirley including extra couple of Mb
> of base.tgz in the 65Mb image is not that hard, eh?)
>
> Also, 3c59x module is included in only one image: udma-ext3 (I wonder
> who came up with that bright idea... every Dull here has a Vortex NIC).
> But that doesn't really matter because of the above.
>
> I ended up burning a potato CD and doing dist-upgrade to woody.
> On the positive side, that worked without too many problems.
>
> Dima
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