Re: Etch vs. Sarge -- can't make up my mind
Benjamin Sher wrote:
>Dear Alexandru:
>
>Thanks so much for an excellent clarification.
>
>
>
Whoa! Did Alexandru reply off-list? Shame on him/her! Now the rest of us
don't get the benefit of his/her answer, nor does anyone in the future
who might be searching the archives for just the answer he/she provided.
(Or perhaps that message just got lost on its way to me; in that case,
"Never mind" (in the immortal words of Gilda Radner).)
>Two follow-up questions:
>
>1) I have decided a few minutes ago to go with Sarge for the
>reasons you mentioned. If I add apt-get.org and backports.org to
>my apt sources, will I be able to seamlessly add updated
>applications as they become available? Is this a good idea?
>
>
Yes and no. You should be able to add packages, but I think you may have
a rougher time of it on occasion if you stray from the official Debian
repositories. (backports.org might be "official" enough to work okay.)
>2) I have alredy downloaded "netinstall" (rc3). I thought that was
>for the testing distro. Can I use this also for Sarge?
>
>
If it's a Sarge netinstall, yes; if it's an Etch netinstall, maybe.
This is the official Sarge netinstall:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-i386-netinst.iso
I'm not sure where you go the "rc3" netinstall, but I suspect it was the
Sarge installer when Sarge was still Testing, in which case, yes, it'll
work.
--
Kent
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