Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 18 August 2006 14:34, Shadow wrote: > Hi, All. > > A crazy idea came to me to install Debian Sarge 3.1r2 from source. > I bought that 3DVD set, but found that there is no installer on > those disks... > > Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? You can't. T

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 07:35:00PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:04:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > > sometime in the far distant future, paleontologists will be debating > > the classic questions like: Which came first? The compiler or the OS?

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:04:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > sometime in the far distant future, paleontologists will be debating > the classic questions like: Which came first? The compiler or the OS? > Pencil and paper was enough to code up the design for the Zuse computer

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 06:56:33PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > There isn't one. To bootstrap "source only" you must first have a > compiler which requires a working compiler which requires a bootstrap > ... so you need a running Linux system somewhere. [You _can_ build on > another Unix or

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Shadow wrote: > Hi, All. > > A crazy idea came to me to install Debian Sarge 3.1r2 from source. > I bought that 3DVD set, but found that there is no installer on > those disks... > > Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? Th

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Take a look at Debian From Scratch: http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/dfs.html http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/10/1727246 Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:34:01PM -0700, Shadow wrote: > Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? > Q3: can I use my Debian Sarge 3.1r0a binary set for that? > Q4: maybe I can just use some mini-distribution like DfS to load the > debian-installer and proceed with my s

Installing Sarge from source

2006-08-17 Thread Shadow
Hi, All. A crazy idea came to me to install Debian Sarge 3.1r2 from source. I bought that 3DVD set, but found that there is no installer on those disks... Q1: in general, what is the process of installing debian from source? Q2: in the readme on the first disk I read that I should start the insta