On Thursday 20 April 2006 15:06, Bakki Kudva wrote: > A tangential question. I have done netinstalls for all of my machines > which are running Sarge stable. I'd like to run unstable for desktop > as you do. The question is, since there is no netinstall cd for > unstable do you do an install from the stable netinstall and then do a > dist-upgrade? This seems like a round about way and when I did try a > dist-upgrade on my laptop it borked.
Best is to either: - use an Etch _netinst_ installation CD and then dist-upgrade, or - use an Etch _businesscard_ CD, boot that in expert mode and select unstable after selecting a mirror. Both are available from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer.
pgp6R6N6gmQoJ.pgp
Description: PGP signature
