Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Scott Henson (shenson2@wvu.edu) spake thusly:
> On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 22:04, Chris Kenrick wrote:
> > What's the recommended approach for installing Woody
> > these days?
> > 
> 
> I really would not recomend installing potato then 
> dist-upgrading.  Having tried that several time, I could 
> never recomend that.  What I did is got some woody disks
> and did a regular install.  Now what I would recomend is 
> useing the new net install CD's.  I basically did that useing the
> regular CD's.  The real advantage that I see is the smaller image.
> But I would really recomend that you install woody straight.  You
> will save yourself so much pain.

Intersting. My experience is exactly opposite -- last time I tried
woody netinst image (couple of weeks ago), setup script was looking
for Release file in the wrong place, so I couldn't install base
system. Instlling potato and dist-upgrading to woody worked like
a charm, OTOH.

(Aside: why not put base on netinst CD? Sure the image will be
bigger -- by what, 5%? -- but then you could install minimal
bootable system off it.)

Dima
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