Re: Installing Debian on Acer Aspire One
On Tue, 29 May 2012 09:28:45 +0100, Brian wrote in message
<[🔎] 20120529082845.GA2847@desktop>:
> On Tue 29 May 2012 at 07:52:21 +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote:
>
> > I have move a step forward: I used the testing netinstall ISO,
> > copied to my memory stick using "cat image.iso > /dev/sdX". The
> > installation is able to recognize my HDD now :-) Great news... but
> > it is still failing.
> >
> > After partitioning the HDD, the Debian base system could be
> > installed, but I get an error about installing busybox from the
> > CD-ROM (I imagine that it refers to the memory stick).
>
> Is it anything like
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627488 ?
>
> A stable businesscard iso from the CD section on this page:
>
> http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/
>
> allows testing to be installed and should avoid the busybox problem.
..after that you simply swap "wheezy/testing" for "sid/unstable"
and "dist-upgrade", and since we don't usually want newbies to
do that, I leave the precise where and how as an exercise. ;o)
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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.
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