Re: howto: downgrade lenny->sarge -or- fresh sarge install?
On 2009-04-18 11:35 +0200, tom campbell wrote:
> Seeking some guidance on how to get a sarge install up on a x86 desktop.
> There aren't any hardware issues, lenny installs fine from CD+net.
Just out of curiosity: do you intend to open a museum of modern
software, or why else do you want to install sarge?
> I tried booting from "debian-sarge-3.1-mini.iso (downloaded from sarge
> archive). I manually adusted the mirrors to point to
> archive.debian.org/debian-archive.debian. and installer found the
> "Releases" file.
>
> When it hit the installer page of "which...? stable, unstable..." it
> couldn't find the files (presumably because directory structure changed
> when it was archived). I couldn't find a way to manually tell it files
> to install.
The reason is probably that there aren't any {{old,,un}stable,testing}
symlinks on archive.debian.org; it would be unclear to which
distributions they should point anyway.
> I did a full of install of lenny (which is now up).
>
> Anyone have any suggestions on how to:
> downgrade the running lenny -or-
> how to install sarge directly?
>
> any pointers appreciated.
Your best bet is probably to set up a sarge chroot with debootstrap,
i.e. with the command
# debootstrap sarge ./sarge-chroot http://archive.debian.org/debian
If that works, you can chroot to that basic installation and install
more software. Note that setting up fstab and networking, installing a
kernel and a bootloader still needs to be done if you want to boot into
sarge; and you need an extra partition then as well.
Sven
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