Hiya,
Dselect only gives one the choice between mounting stable or unstable.
I wanted to beta test frozen before the release date and so needed to
somehow convince dselect to allow this - but found no option to.
(I hear that using ftp install this isn't the case, but I installed from
a mounted drive)
Here's the solution:
I keep the debian distribution on /mnt/debian.
First make an alternative top structure.
mkdir /mnt/debian2; cd /mnt/debian2
Now recreate the directory structure that is contained in /mnt/debian
#This wee line creates a secont root tree
ls -1 --directory ../debian/* | sed 's$\.\.\/debian\/$$' | \
xargs -n 1 -i ln -s ../debian/{} ./{}
Now we must trick dselect into believing its installing unstable
rm unstable; ln -s ../debian/frozen ./unstable
Thats it! Now just tell dselect where the alternative tree is rooted and
say yes when dselect prompts whether you want to install the unstable
distribution!
Regards,
jay
ps: am not on the mailing lists so please CC any comments
pps: if anyone wants a point and click GUI interface to the above, then
just mail me and I'll put something together for you using
widtools. We could call it Xdefrost ;) hehe!!
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