Re: Floppy Net Install Stable
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> S. Fishpaste put forth on 10/29/2009 3:41 PM:
>
>> Does this default to installing Etch, and does one get a choice to switch
>> the distro sources list before it's written to disk during the install? I
>> don't remember ...
>
> I'm pretty sure all the boot floppy installs point to the stable
> directories on the mirrors. Lenny is the current stable, so you should
> end up with a Lenny system regardless of using Sarge or Etch net install
> floppies.
The lenny version of the network installer (which the badly named
netinst is not) seems to look for both "lenny" and "stable" on the
mirror. If either is missing it complains and the web server logs
reflect the unsuccessful request.
-- Lee
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