After having apt install dist-update totally bonk a system (afterward neither apt nor dselect would run without generating errors, and dselect finally removed enough of the base config that it wouldn't boot), I nuked, paved, and did pretty much what Steve suggested, except that I had a Potato CD. During the apt setup routine, I added the CD, added the default http debian.org site, then appended the following lines from the http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ page:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free If the installer doesn't let you do this for some reason, you can ctrl-F2 into another window, log in as root and edit /etc/apt/sources.list directly, then ctrl-F1 back to the installer. My reasoning was that packages that haven't been updated since my 2.2r3 would get installed from the CD, packages more recent than the CD that are the same in potato and woody would get installed from the online potato dist, and the latest packages would get installed from online the woody dist. The install seems to have gone well. The only problem I'm aware of is that vi doens't want to run (something about a bad wrapper, vi-base or elvis-tiny not found) but I use vim anyway so no big deal. I used the advanced (dselect) method to finish the install. Anyone have comments on this technique? Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:31:22AM -0600, Gary Hennigan uttered: >> I suppose I can install a bare-bones potato and dist-upgrade to >> testing but that's an additional step I would rather avoid if >> possible. >> >Install a base potato syetem, and when you reboot, ask to edit sources.list >manually and put 'woody' or 'testing' in there, instead of 'stable'. >Oh, and don't forget to disable the security line. > >-- Steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
