Will, Your appoach is normal one to get from potato to woody. It does not harm but I think it is pointless for this case.
What I am doing is avoid installing normal minimum potato itself. Only base2_2.tgz is installed from potato. By mangling with /etc/apt/sources.list during installation, dselect never fetches files from potato but only from woody archive. I did not try dist-upgrade from base2_2.tgz only installation. Even if successful with this, one has to run dselect to get decent system going. So you gain nothing but run extra commands. Osamu PS: You are right on /etc/apt/sources.list On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 05:30:36PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > > installation started and then driver disks? base disks? Can I not go > > > directly to getting things off the network after booting in with the > > > rescue and root disks? > > install potato/stable, then munge /etc/apt/sources changing > "stable" to "woody" (or "testing") and then > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:48:37PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Install woody using potato boot disks > > ide-pci kernel on ide boot disk enables pci network cards. > > > > 1. Get 3 potato disk set of IDE boot/root(/driver) disks > > 2. Boot with FD > > 3. Fdisk/fsck/mount swap, root, tmp, var, home, usr (no 2.0 support) > > 4. Install OS from network. No need for driver disk(s) > > 5. Configure driver (No action option) > > 6. Install base system from network (base2_2.tgz) > > 7. Configure base system > > 8. Install lilo to /target and keep current multiboot mbr > > 9. Reboot system (Lazy not to create FD) > > 10. MD5 yes, shadow yes, setup also user account > > 11. Edit source by hand (setup 2 entries, change "stable" to "testing") > > /etc/apt/sources.list is what you mean, right? > > > 12. Install advanced (dselect) > > 13. Select minimum set (exclude emacs, nvi, tex, telnet, talk(d),...) > > 14. Include mc, vim, ... (for convienience) > > 15. Install (download all...) > > 16. All configuration questions = y (replace current) > > 17. exim: select 2 for machine behind FW, 1 for internet machine. (XXX) > > 18. Never erase downloaded file, end smoothly. Wow! > > 19. Check by "Select" console-* and lilo are from potato. Heck, it works. > > 20. I see complain about "DESTROY" method. Annoying but testing. > > 21. Login to root, run dselect --expert, good > > 22. Reboot. missing char-major-10-135 ? (rtc) but fine > > 23. Compiled newer kernel or install standard kernel-image. No more rtc > > issue. > > -- -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + http://www.aokiconsulting.com/debian/ for FAQ Cupertino, CA USA +
