> a friend just asked me where to find a Debian installation CD. She > probably won't care if potato hasn't the label "stable" yet (and we > were told to upgrade from slink to potato anyway)... So I'd like to > know if there's some easy way to install potato without having to > download hundreds of Megabytes... > > I remember that someone once said in this list that installing Corel > and then upgrading wouldn't work well...
not at all > What about Storm? Would it work? (Install it, and then point > sources.list to debian.org and upgrade?) I have my doubts... > I think I can find some unofficial potato CDs at some store > here... But I'm not sure if these are a good choice. If you can find someone selling the test cycle 3 images found at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/ then that might work. it should be clearly labeled as such, I would think. test cycle 3 is basically exactly what stable will be unless some really horrible thing happens or something. --- Jared Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself. -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/C d+(-)>-- s:+ a18 C++++$ UL++++>$ P+>++++ L+++ E--- W+ N+ o? K- w--- !O M-- V-- !PS !PE Y PGP- t+ 5-- X R-- tv- b+ DI>+ !D G e>++(>+++) h-- r* y-(>+++) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
