On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:47:09AM EST, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Chris Jones wrote:
> > Before I take the plunge, I would like to make sure I got this right .. > > and in particular that the "apt-get update" is not going to screw up my > > apt system. > > if you do 'apt-get update && apt-get install live-helper' and revert > your sources.list afterwards, this is safe and will not damage your system. Excellent! > if you want to have sid repository permanently in your sources.list, > read man apt_preferences for pinning unstable lower than stable. No. I have installed a base lenny system on another partition and will reinstall the applications I need one at a time asap. > > Also, what's the difference between debootstrap and cdebootstrap? > > debootstrap is shell and the official used tool; cdebootstrap is > reimplementation in c, faster but usually less good supported. Thanks much for your timely response! CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
