Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:56:21 +0200
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> wrote:

> 
> Personally, if you have some free harddrive space, or can buy a
> second harddrive, I would install another instance of Etch, and put
> it on Lenny/testing in /etc/apt/sources.list. You can run your
> machine as a dual boot, and then have an Etch install, which you know
> is ok, and a Lenny install that can be a bit experimental.
> 
> 
> Whatever you decide to do, allways have one install that you know is
> ok. That way you can collect your e-mails, surf the web, and do
> whatever other stuff you use your machine for. The other install,


   That basically what I do - I run Sid on one partition..and Ubuntu
Dapper (highly stable) on another. Then if or when Sid breaks, I always
have Dapper to depend on. Sid was Etch, which became testing, which
becamE Sid. so far..so good.


Cheers


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