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Martin Maney wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:27:23PM -0600, Stephen Boulet wrote:
> > How do you tell the installer to install from the unstable branch using the debian 2.2
> > cd's? I've never actually completed a debian installation before... :(
> >
> > Or would it be a better to do a stable install and then apt-get to unstable? I'm asking
>
> I think that, yes, it would be a good plan to get a working install before
> heading off into the rough. :-) Then it's a pretty trivial edit of
> /etc/apt/sources and apt-get update/upgrade you go.
>
> If you're feeling very brave you could look for the latest revision of the
> bootdisks, but those are usually a mess at this point in a version's
> development. The potato-to-unstable approach sounds much more plausible to
> me, it really does.
>
> Luck!
Thanks. Although I have to install using "beta" bootdisks if I want to mount my root
partition (reiserfs).
I will be using the bootdisks found at <http://chao.ucsd.edu/debian/boot-floppies/>, for
those interested.
-- Stephen
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