Re: Just installed lenny/sid ... wanted etch
If you're stuck with only that CD and can't burn another (I was in
this position a couple days ago), you can still use the Testing
NetInst CD to install Etch.
Just before you are about to choose the packages to install (before
you've opened the menu item in the installer to start that (if you
already have, just "go back" to the installer menu)), open a second
screen (CTRL-SHIFT-2, then ENTER) and do this:
chroot /target
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
#(modify this file to change "testing" or "lenny" to "etch", then save)
apt-get update
exit
exit
And then go back to your installer (CTRL-SHIFT-1) and open the menu
item to choose your packages (tasksel) and it should now be in
Etch-land. Continue as normal.
(I typed this from memory. Sorry if any of it is off! But I'm pretty
sure it's right.)
Dusty
On 4/11/07, Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
I downloaded what the http://cdimage.debian.org page
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/
stated was Etch. After running netinst successfully, I got to the login prompt
and there it said 'lenny/sid'. This came as a surprise, because I actually want
etch.
So I figure the netinst iso image at
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/ is the etch one.
Now slightly too late I found the 'last minute notes' at the bottom of the page
http://www.debian.org/CD/ but only after reading the whole thing.
From a useability stand-point that 'last minute notes' should have been at the
top of the page. That's the page I landed on and I read down only as far as the
first link I needed ('download minimal bootable cd image'), so of course I
missed the message until i discovered I'd installed the wrong release.
Or you could put it on the top of the netinst page. Or on the daily builds page.
There you go.
Otherwise the lenny netinst install went quite well!
regards
Adam
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