On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:55:14AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > If you have internet access and a cd/dvd burner then you can do this: > > download a net install ISO and install 'testing' aka 'etch'. > > But if, some months down the road, you'd use the very same install disk > again to install etch on a different machine (or to reinstall it on the > same one), it would first install an etch base system from the packages > on the disk itself. Then it would proceed to fetch stuff from the > "testing" branch of some Debian mirror which by then, of course, won't > be etch any more but whatever comes after etch (because by then, etch > will hopefully be stable). > > This has bitten me once when I tried a sarge/stable install with a > netinstall disk which came from sarge/testing days. I couldn't figure > out for the life of me why the installation ground to a screeching, > error-message spouting halt each time it started installing stuff from > the net until I realized that the base installation had left "testing" > in the apt sources (so essentially I was trying to do an etch install > with a sarge installation disk). > > The easy, and in my opinion essential, fix would be to "lock" the > netinstall CD to its named (woody, etch, ...) branch instead of the > logical (stable, testing) one. I think a given install CD should result > in identical systems being installed no matter *when* those > installations are done. If someone on this list is chummy with someone > over at debian-installer maybe they could forward this mail to them. >
Sounds like a reasonable idea and submitting a wishlist bug would help :-) -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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