howto: downgrade lenny->sarge -or- fresh sarge install?
Hello all: Seeking some guidance on how to get a sarge install up on a x86 desktop. There aren't any hardware issues, lenny installs fine from CD+net. I tried booting from "debian-sarge-3.1-mini.iso (downloaded from sarge archive). I manually adusted the mirrors to point to archive.debian.org/debian-archive.debian. and installer found the "Releases" file. When it hit the installer page of "which...? stable, unstable..." it couldn't find the files (presumably because directory structure changed when it was archived). I couldn't find a way to manually tell it files to install. I did a full of install of lenny (which is now up). Anyone have any suggestions on how to: downgrade the running lenny -or- how to install sarge directly? any pointers appreciated. I'm an experienced linux user, but new to Debian. I'm coming from rpm world of Fedora/RedHat/Centos so I'm new to apt,synaptic et all also. BTW I certainly like everything I see so far about "debian". The developers certainly appear to "get it" thanks in advance tom campbell www.DinkumSoftware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: howto: downgrade lenny->sarge -or- fresh sarge install?
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 13:58 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Just out of curiosity: do you intend to open a museum of modern > software, or why else do you want to install sarge? :) I'm doing some embedded development on an arm board that ships with sarge and wanted a desktop up to plow around and look at files, experiment with packages in a friendly, slightly more stable environment. > Your best bet is probably to set up a sarge chroot with debootstrap, Worked like a champ! Thanks so much. I continue to be impressed with debian. tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
