On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:37:58AM +0000, Lynn Kilroy wrote: > >From: "Lynn Kilroy" > > > >>From: Kent West > >> > >>Lynn Kilroy wrote: > >>>Are you guys like cleaning up the easy way of donig net installs now or > >>>something? And is it safe to assume that all Debian Dists have the same > >>>basic file sets? > >>> > >>>In other words, for every file that was mentioned in the prior e-mail, > >>>is there file that would be reachable by simply replacing "Potato" with > >>>"Sarge?" > >> > >>Not entirely sure what you're asking. > >> > >>Concerning loadlin, I believe Sarge doesn't work with it, because Sarge > >>uses initrd kernels by default I think, and loadlin can't handle that. > >> > >>Once you have a base install of Potato, you can change your > >>/etc/apt/sources.list file to point to Sarge (or stable, testing, sid, > >>unstable, EXCEPT for the security line, which needs to be left at stable) > >>and then upgrade the box with: > >> aptitude update > >> aptitude dist-upgrade > >>(If Potato doesn't have aptitude, substitute apt-get, then install > >>aptitude and use it in the future - just my recommendation - not > >>essential.) > >> > >>-- > >>Kent > > > >Can I avoid a lot of problems with Sarge by putting the CD Image on a hard > >drive and booting it from there? Is it even possible to use a CD Image > >from a Hard Drive to install Debian? > > > >The ftp site for potato has a habit of playing "Peekaboo!," in that it's > >there for a few minutes then it vanishes. Are there two > >ftp.us.debian.org's, and if so, am I getting the one with debian-archives > >intermittently? If this is the case, how can I get the sight with > >debian-archives more consistently, to finish installing potato, or will > >sarge install over potato if I point to sarge? > > > >I will try to have sarge try to install in the place of the rest of > >potato, but I don't know how well this will work. It seems to me a wonder > >I found potato in the first place! :-) > > > >Love & Friendhip & Blessed Be! > >Lynn Erika Kilroy > > Okay. The potato finished installing after pointing apt-get to the Sarge > Distro. Which seems kinda' odd, but I hope makes perfect sense for linux. > > I did not try to use aptitude - maybe I should - but anyway, apt-get > dist-upgrade responded by saying there were no updates available. I had to > point it at /debian/dists/sarge to get it to finish installing at all, so > could I now have a sarge box instead of a potato box? If so, where to from > here? > > Love & Friendship & Blessed Be! > Lynn Erika Kilroy Hi Lynn, could you post your /etc/apt/sources.list here hoping you will soon be using Sarge and maybe you can try to document your fun path from woody to ssarge on the debian wiki (http://wiki.debian.org)! cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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