Package: installation-guide-amd64 Severity: normal Hello,
I just followed these[1] instructions to install the current testing/wheezy on top of an old ubuntu system, and this is my feedback. [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/apds03.html.en * D.3.1. Getting Started To create the filesystem: # mke2fs -j /dev/hda6 does that create an ext4 filesystem by default? I used mkfs.ext4 just to be sure. * D.3.1. Getting Started # mkswap /dev/hda5 # sync; sync; sync # swapon /dev/hda5 Are three syncs still needed? * D.3.3. Run debootstrap # /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch ARCH wheezy \ /mnt/debinst http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian Shame there isn't any mention on how to use an apt keyring to validate packages. --keyring=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg works on Ubuntu systems, for example, provided a recent debian-archive-keyring package is installed. See: http://www.enricozini.org/2006/tips/trusted-pbuilder/ * D.3.4.3. Setting Timezone # editor /etc/adjtime adjtime wasn't installed in my system * D.3.4.6. Configure Locales and Keyboard In both these cases: # aptitude install locales # dpkg-reconfigure locales # aptitude install console-setup # dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration dpkg-reconfigure is actually run automatically at package installation. * D.3.5. Install a Kernel # aptitude install linux-image-2.6.32-arch-etc I actually found a more convenient linux-image-amd64, and the default kernel for wheezy seems to be 3.2.0 * D.3.6. Set up the Boot Loader "just add an entry for the Debian install to your existing grub2 grub.cfgor lilo.conf." misses a space after grub.cfg * * * The only hiccup I had with the guide is that I'm installing on lvm and I didn't run "apt-get install lvm2" before rebooting, so although grub2 properly loaded the lvm module and found both the kernel and the initrd, the initrd was lacking lvm support. Thanks for the good work! Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130317154430.27880.92085.report...@viaza.enricozini.org
