On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 04:58, Walter Reed wrote: > I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with slack > about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I did. I'm a > bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest code. So I'm > looking at sid. Sid doesn't have install disks yet, so I'm wondering what the > best way is to get up and running. Do I go the woody route and dist-upgrade? > Is there a faq out there somewhere (didn't find one googling or searching deb > web site...) that goes over this?
Install woody. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list. apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade. You might have to dist-upgrade a few times for it to work properly. > My preference is to download the absolute minimum and net-install a minimal > system. From the install guide it looks like I have to install a number of > floppies (yuck). Has anyone done this using a minimal CDROM instead? DLing > 650M > is silly, but if there was an ISO (of any version of debian actually since I > can dist-upgrade) of the minimal stuff (rescue, root, drivers, and base) that > would be awesome. If you're going the minimal way, you need six floppies - rescue, root, and driver-[1-4]. See the installation guide on debian.org for details. James. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
