Re: Trying to do network install of sarge

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

steflik wrote:

> Kent,
> Woody isn't on the system, it "was" on the system until I
> repartitioned the harddrive and formatted it.
> The question is really... is there a problem with the net-driver
> diskette as it hangs when trying to load the yenta socket driver?
>
> Dick Steflik
>
Ah, misunderstood your post.

But this is an excellent example of why replies should be kept on-list;
I have no clue about PCMCIA networking and "yenta". By keeping the reply
on-list, you have a better chance of getting an answer from someone who
does know somewhat of such things. (And the exchange gets archived for
future seekers of the same information.)

Sorry I don't have an answer for you.

(And btw, top-posting is discouraged on this list, in favor of
post-response-post-response interspersing.)

> Kent West wrote:
>
>> Robert Vangel wrote:
>>
>>> Dick Steflik wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old
>>>> install
>>>> of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do
>>>> this
>>>> by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM.
>>>
>>> Is there no network access on the laptop at all? If not, can you not
>>> edit /etc/apt/sources.list to use sarge and do a dist-upgrade?
>>
>> Agreed; since you already have Woody on the system, if Woody works on
>> the network, you just upgrade. No need to reinstall from scratch using
>> Sarge.
>>
>> Debian - Install once; upgrade forever.
>

-- 
Kent