Re: Installing sid from scratch
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 04:58, Walter Reed wrote:
> I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with slack
> about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I did. I'm a
> bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest code. So I'm
> looking at sid. Sid doesn't have install disks yet, so I'm wondering what the
> best way is to get up and running. Do I go the woody route and dist-upgrade?
> Is there a faq out there somewhere (didn't find one googling or searching deb
> web site...) that goes over this?
Install woody. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list. apt-get update; apt-get -f
dist-upgrade. You might have to dist-upgrade a few times for it to work
properly.
> My preference is to download the absolute minimum and net-install a minimal
> system. From the install guide it looks like I have to install a number of
> floppies (yuck). Has anyone done this using a minimal CDROM instead? DLing 650M
> is silly, but if there was an ISO (of any version of debian actually since I
> can dist-upgrade) of the minimal stuff (rescue, root, drivers, and base) that
> would be awesome.
If you're going the minimal way, you need six floppies - rescue, root,
and driver-[1-4]. See the installation guide on debian.org for details.
James.
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