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Re: Base files for Debian 3.0



on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:31:19AM +0000, David Goodenough (david.goodenough@btconnect.com) wrote:
> All the instructions I could find through Google for doing a chroot install of
> Debian point me at at base2_2.tgz on archive.debian.org.  This is a 2.2 
> install, rather than a 3.0.

Install the base, point your sources to current, and upgrade straight to
Woody.   While Debian doesn't guarantee upgrades over multiple releases,
in general this will _probably_ work for some time yet.

> Doing a google search on base3_0.tgz leads to a few messages about it no
> longer produced.

As Colin noted, dbootstrap is the updated method.  I sorta like having a
base tarball myself.


Peace.

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