Re: dumb question about installing etch....
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:18:28AM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
> Douglas Tutty wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:15:57AM +0000, Chris Lale wrote:
> >>Michael Fothergill wrote:
> >>>If I wanted to install etch as a net install, how do I do this? On
> >>>the installation web page there is a choice of a weekly snapshot or a
> >>>daily built image. The daily built image has a netinstall CD in it.
> >>>
> >>>Is there a netinstall CD for the weekly one?
> >>>
> >>>I have never tried to install Etch.
> >>>
> >>Did you download the Etch RC1 installer from
> >>http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/? Choose "netinst CD image
> >>(100-150 MB)". Burn the ISO image to a CD. Boot from the CD and press F3
> >>at the prompt. You can choose a curses-bases installer or a GUI
> >>installer. The installer will install all the latest packages in Etch
> >>directly from the repository. You will need a broadband connection.
> If you haven't got broadband you will need to be patient! It takes me 2
> - 3 hours to install Etch over broadband. I installed Sarge once using a
> 56k dialup and it took a whole day.
>
Just to see (and to rearrange my raid/lvm setup), I installed Etch amd64
RC1 last night and chose a mirror and had it install the whole standard
system from within the installer. It took 7 hrs. I imagine that if I
had asked it to install Gnome it could have taken a week.
To me, the goal of an install is to get the basic system installed so I
can add stuff to it. It would be __very__ handy if there was a
"standard" task in the task lists (or a metapackage) of aptitude that
corresponded to the "standard system" task in tasksel during the
install.
If you forgo using a mirror during the netinst.iso install, you get a
very basic system but one with enough to get more on it, with your
drives and kernel setup.
Doug.
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