Re: Debian Install (Sid)

[Kirk Lowery <klowery@whi.wts.edu>]

Paul Johnson wrote:

[snip]

> You don't.  There is no installer.  You upgrade to it after you 
> already have a working Debian system and have a good idea at just the
>  kind of hairy stuff you're going to run into when you move to sid. 
> Just stick to stable and use backports.

Actually, I just did it. I intended to install sarge on my laptop, and
then upgrade to sid. I downloaded the beta 3 sarge installer (the 30BM
network installer), and it offered me the choice of stable, testing or
unstable. I chose unstable, and everything went normally. I have a 
working sid system, with kde 3.2.1 and everything. Of course, using 
kernel 2.6.3 made my touchpad die, but then, life with sid is like that! :-)

Kirk