Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine
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Michael Pobega wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> * 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?
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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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- From the Original Post:
>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.
You must have missed that. It's quoted above as well.
That's why my response was what it was.
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