-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 08 September 2006 17:32, Jordi Carrillo was heard to say: > You say you reinstalled from zero twice. What's the best way to get > into unstable?
Personally, I use the ~180MB CD version or CD#1 of whatever is Stable. I keep it to an absolute minimum, not downloading any packages off the net if I can help it. I've done it with the ~30MB "net install" image CD, which means you start off with a REALLY minimalist system. Don't plug in the network cable until the system works, just to be sure. Then edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to the unstable archives, connect the network cable and do whatever it takes to get that working, and "# apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade". When I can I use the sources.list that I had before, which includes such non-Debian archives as "Debian Multimedia" for mplayer, etc. Another good reason to make sure to back up your /etc directory whenever you do a backup. This will bring the system into unstable with an absolute minimum of prior baggage. Once it's working as Unstable, then I run dselect (don't scream, folks, I've used it since 1995 and am comfortable with it) to add those meta-packages and applications I know I want. Then, when it's ready to download and install 800 or so packages, I let it go ahead and go to sleep, wake up the next morning and start answering debconf questions. :^) > Another question. When testing becomes stable, I suppose that after > this transition if you have sth like > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > your debian will go on with the next testing debian Os, right? Right. "Testing" means testing, no matter what the version name is. However, soon after releasing a "stable", "testing" can get very, very unstable (in the bad way) for months. I would change the pointer from "testing" to "etch" now, so that you don't go through that massive mess until you are ready to do so. Unstable doesn't have that massive upheaval, because it's always at a low level of instability. Curt- - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRQHvOy9Y35yItIgBAQIj1gf/VKPTKgKAQOPvX2vPPY5JDPDgCMvGPQhq FSKhlEY67dy+P5Y9H89CI6n6HrKnF+9ByWc7HLpTfcGfdojIGRzF2drgeFu2YOuZ mnMsAF1t+JE5rMTtT2FXzCYrAKU2W71/Egphpj3r/q5awLxqqzHr0kxPvk1/PPWx mgmJFXE5/0xQbcj+q01pSzzxzKYUU4Ns/E3XKxby5qK9mYyFhiEBE8pJpY2RSq4t sv6bV2kHQ6exn6/R7bfOUFBP+J2CKWHPccRskq2SrJwAWgthxPwnUZZ1/sRW96Pf a3dvtYnrVJW+Gb1Zu8S68ca9ZSLxKAyneAkSuwQ7jOb1fJ5HdGEzAQ== =cwGK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
