Re: Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:55:16AM -0500, cga2001@eml.cc wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > I looked at my copy of debinst rc2 CD. It has deb package of wget and
> > udeb package of debootstrap on it in directory named pool. I believe
> > udeb is a compact and stripped down version of a regular deb, so it
> > probably has all you need for chroot, plus a lot of stuff that you
> > might not need for chroot. I would try it.
> >
> > _But_, I have never done chroot install. And, I am not an expert on the
> > internals of the netinst system. I have used it, and it has worked
> > very nicely, for me.
> >
>
> Thank you again.
>
> I continued working on this and managed to download the netinst .iso
> image. A more up-to-date version of debootstrap (from
> debootstrap_0.2.45_i386.deb) apparently finds the sarge install packages
> to its liking.. but alas, it needs a more recent version of gcc.
>
> Since I do not wish to make any major changes to my running system and
> I'm pretty sure that I'll have to upgrade some libraries to get a more
> recent version of gcc to install, I'm going to try a different approach.
> I'm currently re-installing woody from the basedebs.tar file and will
> try to get "apt-get dist-upgrade".
>
You really don't need the latest version of gcc in order to install Sarge,
no matter what install technique you use. All the stuff that you need to
install the OS is already compiled in a self consistent way. Once you have
Sarge installed, you get the latest gcc for further work, but you don't
need it for the install of Sarge.
There is a major shift of library libc6 between Woody and Sarge. Almost
every package needs a different version between these two. Maybe, you
should ask on the debian installer list about the apparent need for a
recent version of gcc. If you can install Woody, you can dist-upgrade
from Woody to Sarge, and skip all consideration of netinstall.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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