On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:38:01AM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: > I don't see an "unstable" installer on the web site. Is the standard > way to build an "unstable" system to build a "testing" system, point > /etc/apt/sources.list to an unstable repository and update+upgrade? Or > is there something more common that I'm overlooking? >
See http://wooledge.org/~greg/sidfaq.html#3 The way I used most recently was to use a stable netinstall CD and boot it in expert mode. You'll be prompted which branch you want to configure apt for (stable, testing or sid). Choose sid. Then I skipped taskselect and went straight into aptitude and started choosing packages. This took a little longer but I had an unstable system on first boot with little cruft. The alternative is to install a testing system, change your apt sources and dist-upgrade to unstable. This latter way may be safer for new debian users and is I believe the recommended method. -- Ken Wahl
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