Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
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> Land Haj wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've been using sid for amd64 on my production machine since before it
> > became an official debian port, but for the next few years I will have 0
> > time for fixing stuff that might break, and so I'm gonna use stable
> > instead, starting with etch. Ideally I should make the move in the next
> > few days, and I would very much appreciate some advice:
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> > * If I install testing today and change apt sources to stable when etch
> > is done (and do 'aptitude dist-upgrade'), will I have the same
> > installation as I would have if I had waited to do a clean stable install?
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> Just make it says etch in your /etc/apt/soures.list and you won't have
> to worry. The current etch installer does that by default.
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Wouldn't the word testing be more suitable than Etch? Etch will soon
become the stable branch, and I think that the OP wants testing and
not soon-to-be-stable Etch.
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