Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:31 -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >>On 2/23/06, Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu> wrote:> todd,>> please keep replies on the list. thanks.> also use inline responses, it makes for better readability.>> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:22 -0500, Todd Swackhamer wrote:> > do i need to know much to go through this? this is my first debian> > install (or any linux experience, for that matter) and i am a bit> > intimidated going through the expert mode.>> go with the etch installer. worst case scenario is you lose an hour or> two fiddling. >>Can etch installer be used to install sarge? If so how? > > > i doubt it, but i wanted to give it a go i would boot into the expert > mode, and when it asked me about my apt sources i would enter 'sarge' by > hand: > > $ grep sarge /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free > > i have no idea what the affect of this would be. > > -matt zagrabelny > > A better approach is probably a Knoppix chroot install. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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