Re: broken old installer?
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:51:29AM +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:49:52PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> > > 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.
> > ...
> > > Should I not be using my trusty old installer?
> >
> ...
> 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.
Right. I've always figured that was the "purpose" of major revision
number changes, to warn of major changes and potential system-breaking
incompatibilities. I guess I last did an install of the old sarge net
cd, ending up with an etch stable system, in early July, which I thought
was after the stable freeze. No need to pursue it, though; I'll just
grab a new cd image or two.
Ken
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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu
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