* Harry Putnam (reader@newsguy.com) [020228 18:14]: > Geordie Birch <geordie@tao.ca> writes: > > >> At least `woody' sounded...... well .... erect :- > > why don't you lose all those cd's, do a network install of stable, > > then, before installing _anything_ beyond base, apt-get dist-upgrade to > > testing or unstable? > > dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> writes: > > [...] > > > You can try installing a base potato system, then dist-upgrade to > > woody. This has worked for me on several systems. > > A couple of posters have mentioned a network install. Where are the > details spelled out? Are we talking installing from a running > machine? Already network enabled? My situation is that I have 2 > desktops before me. A full well used redhat 7.1 on one machine and A > solaris x86 on another. The solaris (intel) has a second disk that > had a skeleton install of Redhat on it before I began my adventures. You'll need to download some floppy images and boot from them. The other machines will come in handy for downloading and "burning" the floppy images, but the target machine doesn't need anything already running on it. > I wanted to install Woody in its place. So with a network install how > would I proceed? I mean in general. Not a detailed account. I'll > find and read any documentation I need. Pointers would be nice though. All you need to do is get 2-6 blank floppies and be able to dd some images to them. The install process will be very similar to the part you did before, from the CD, but before performing the stage 2 base install and the package selection process, it will try to get your network working and get all of the info from the Internet rather than from a CD. The install instructions are here: http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/installmanual and the floppy images are here: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/ Reading the install manual (esp section 5.2) will help you decide which "flavour" to go with. Most likely, you can use 'compact' which is only 2 floppies. Otherwise you'll probably be using idepci, which requires 6. Welcome back =) good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume/
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