Re: unique install question?
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> Hi,
> first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed,
> which is why I wanted it.
> second, it took me a year to find anyone who could create these
> images for me. and I cannot burn the stable squeeze cd myself, no
> means as my main computer only has dialup.
> Agreed, had I not been told that Debian would not care which method
> I used, it might have been smarter to ignore having speech for the
> install, but I have what I have.
>
> third on your question, I would rather have all of debian than not
> enough, even if useless to me. I will have no way after the fact
> to upgrade anything...and am not a speed junkie smiles.
>
Hi Karen.
If you start with a Wheezy installation CD, I think it is impossible to
end up with pure Squeeze. But perhaps you can end up with mostly
Squeeze. Here is how I would do it.
I've never installed from DVD -- only from the netinst CD. But on the
netinst CD (and perhaps the DVD) there is a screen which asks what type
of software you want installed. Some choices are: Desktop environment,
Web server, Laptop, etc. I would deselect all of them. I'm not sure if
that will negatively affect the speech software, though.
Once the installation is done, you will have a very basic Wheezy
installation. It will have no graphical interface -- only command line.
Change your /etc/apt/sources.list to remove references to Wheezy, and
add references to Squeeze. Folks on the list, what's the best way to do
this? Use the apt-cdrom command?
So your /etc/apt/sources.list might end up looking something like this:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20110319-14:31]/ squeeze contrib main
Then you can install software from your Squeeze DVDs. Note that some
software may conflict with something you've already got installed from
Wheezy. In that case, you will want to try downgrading from the Wheezy
version of whatever package to the Squeeze version.
All of this software installation is done using apt-get, aptitude,
synaptic, or some other package management tool.
I realize this advice is incomplete, but hopefully it'll get you
started.
-Rob
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