On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Cassiano Leal wrote: > > Tarek Soliman wrote: > >> An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before > >> you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. > > > > Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do it? I was > > really eager to try sid, but didn't want to break my etch and have to > > reinstall everything! > > > > Cheers > > Cassiano > > The first step is to create a new partition for it, then install etch on > that partition. It will update your grub to give two options for > booting etch. Pick one of them and then change /etc/apt/sources.list > and change all occurrences of "etch" to sid, and then do: > > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. You'll then have Sid. > > Of course, instead of installing etch over again, you can just copy > everything to the new partition, but clean installs are easier to deal with. > > Once everything is set up, you can choose to boot sid, or change which > system you are using without rebooting by using the chroot command. See > man chroot for more information about chroot. >
If you have an internet connection that can do a netinstall, you don't actually need to partition anything, boot, or install. debootstrap will dump a debian installation into an empty directory. After following the howtos and debian docs on debootstrap I have this to say: The best way to debootstrap sid is to debootstrap stable and then chroot into it and upgrade it to testing then to unstable. You can also set up a vt to let you log in to the chroot. Also, mount rbind came in handy. -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
