Re: broken old installer?
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:49:52PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:21:17AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> > I'm somewhat CD-writing-impaired, and have always installed debian systems
> > using outdated installers. For a long time I used a woody net install cd,
> > but since mid-2005 I've been using a sarge net install cd, as recently
> > as a month ago, without problems. Now I'm seeing the install fail.
> > Unfortunately, the first error screen indicating a problem is quickly
> > (~ 1 second maybe) replaced with an information-free curses page saying
> > that there were errors...
> >
> > ...
> > On thing I haven't tried is to do the install completely off the CD,
> > and do the net upgrades later.
>
> ... which of course didn't work from the *net install* cd. I was able
> to proceed after upgrading aptitude (and related libraries) from another
> console.
>
> > Should I not be using my trusty old installer?
>
You can do a basic install with the netinst.iso without a network. I do
it all the time. You get a base install. Its only the business card
iso that doesn't include basedebs. For my installs, I don't choose
_any_ tasks to install.
Note, however, that Woody was 3.0 and Sarge was 3.1. Sure there was
some difference, but the upgrade was handled well by aptitude. I never
owned a Sarge CD. The upgrade from Sarge to Etch (4.0) is not smoothe.
Do yourself a favor and get Etch's netinst.iso for your arch (i386,
amd64, S390??). Assuming that you have access to a debian box with a
burner, any problems you have can be solved here.
Doug.
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