Ken Heard wrote: > I see that RC1 of Jessie is now available. I would consequently > appreciate opinions as to whether Jessie is now or will be by mid > April sufficiently stable for such installations, or should I install > Wheezy instead and upgrade to Jessie when it is officially declared > stable? > > I would much prefer the one step approach -- install Jessie within two > months and live with non RC bugs for a while -- to the two step > approach -- Wheezy now and upgrade to Jessie six months later more or > less. Perhaps when I get around to those installations there may be a > further RC release of Jessie? I am not really sure precisely what you are asking. But I think from the questions I will answer this way. If you have compatible hardware I would install Wheezy today and then immediately upgrade to Jessie. The installer is always one of the last things to finish before release. It generally needs to be one of the last things because it is reacting to changes in the release. Therefore the typical thing is to use the previous installer which is stable and well tested for the installation and then upgrade. Usually when we do this we don't install a desktop. We install a bare bones system and then upgrade and then install the heavy bits of a desktop in the new system. But that plan only works if the new system is old enough to be supported by the previous installer's kernel. If it is then great. If it isn't then the older kernel not supporting newer hardware will push you into some trouble. In that case go ahead and try the new installer. Remember that there isn't anything very magic about the installer. It is just there to bootstrap your system. All you need to do is to get to the point that you can log into the new hardware. And then the tricky part may be getting networking. Because often newer network cards need the newest kernel drivers. Once you can log in with network access then you can install the rest of the system. Having said that you might just want to go ahead and test the new Jessie installer. Can't hurt. It will either work (install successfully) or it won't. Either way you will have learned something and can plan for it. If it fails then please make an installation report with the details of the problems. Just my 2 cents... There are many ways to do it. Bob
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