On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 03:20:02 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote:
> >
> > I used the mini.iso from
> >
> >
> > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
> >
> > successfully.
>
> Thanks, but I'm no longer confident that loading Lenny on the box will get
> me closer to my larger goal, which is loading Squeeze and eventually Wheezy
> on it.
The goal is achievable. If other techniques don't give you a readable
screen display or lead to errors it may be the only way to go. Anyway,
there is nothing like doing it to see where you can get, so, having an
hour or two to kill this morning, here is brief set of instructions and
a description of the outcome.
1, Downloaded a Lenny netinst iso from
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/debian-installer/
and burnt it to a CD.
2. Booted the iso. Chose expert mode. Got to the configuring the package
manager stage and gave archive.debian.org as the mirror and /debian/
as the directory. As with the mini iso, the netinst iso contacted the
mirror, downloaded what it needed and got on with preparing for
offering to install software. I do not understand why you should have
a problem with this step because archive.debian.org is structured
like any other archive.
3. Deselected the desktop task and installed just the bare minimum.
4. Went with GRUB 2 as the boot loader to put in the MBR of the first
hard disk.
5. Booted to Lenny. Altered sources.list to point to a Squeeze archive.
6. apt-get update. apt-get upgrade. Reboot. apt-get dist-upgrade.
Reboot.
7. Altered sources.list to point to a Wheezy archive. apt-get update.
apt-get upgrade. Reboot. apt-get dist-upgrade.
I am confident the mini.iso would have lead to the same outcome. You now
have the URLs of two isos to use.
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