On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:19:45AM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > > Install Potato on the machine, then upgrade it to Woody. Upgrading > > Debian is easy, read info from Woody Release Notes. > > > Not to be argumentative, but isn't this incredibly wasteful considering the > only change necessary to the base rescue disk is the addition of one (small) > driver... I'd do it myself if I could.
Depends on the point of view. You can do the woody install and upgrade to potato yourself, and it is easier than creating a new boot disk with suitable drivers for your laptop. You can also do a special boot disk yourself. So you have two methods to solving your problem that do not need outside help. I believe all necessary info is available from Debian Install manual and Release Notes. On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:43:14PM -0400, Terry Mathews wrote: > Can someone cook me up a Woody i386 rescue disk with this driver so > that I can install Woody? I found a +disk for Potato, but AFAIK I > can't start the system up with a Potato boot disk to install Woody. > > My answer was mainly related to this. I pointed out that you can first install potato and then upgrade it to woody, effectively using a Potato boot disk to get Woody installed. If you have a Potato boot disk that works on your laptop, I would use that because it is faster than creating a new boot disk. -- Tapio Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen
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