Re: Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?

2004-10-23 Thread Rthoreau
> From: "Kevin Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Actually, if you installed with Woody and afterwards change sources > list to > testing, everything would go mad. > > So just use sarge to install if that's what finally you like to use. It should not be a problem to use dist upgrade, you will replace

Re: Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?

2004-10-23 Thread Kevin Wang
OTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:58 PM Subject: Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer? > Hi , > > I'm going to install a new machine on Debian, and I will surely follow > testing, as I've been used to for years. > > Neverthel

Re: Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?

2004-10-23 Thread Alec Berryman
begin quotation of Thierry Michalowski on 2004-10-23 16:58:41 +0200: > The question is : should I nevertheless proceed with a woody > installation CD , manually change my sources.list and apt-get > dist-upgrade at will ? > Or should I use the sarge-rc1 CD install ? You should use the new debia

Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?

2004-10-23 Thread Thierry Michalowski
Hi , I'm going to install a new machine on Debian, and I will surely follow testing, as I've been used to for years. Nevertheless, installing a new machine with woody today, just to upgrade it to testing (and I do want a 2.6 linux kernel!) looks cumbersome. The question is : should I nevertheles

Re: Woody installer

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Wardle
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003 00:57, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: > I am thinking of installing Debian. I do not, however, want to spend too > much time doing that. I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 before, so I'd like to > know if Debian (Woody) installation is as easy/difficult as FreeBSD. They're a littl

Re: Woody installer

2003-02-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:39:41PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > * Kesav Tadimeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 15:37]: > > > I am thinking of installing Debian. I do not, however, want to spend too > > much time doing that. I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 before, so I'd like to > > know if Debian (Woo

Re: Woody installer

2003-02-11 Thread Robert Ian Smit
* Kesav Tadimeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-02-2003 15:38]: > I am thinking of installing Debian. I do not, however, want to spend too > much time doing that. I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 before, so I'd like to > know if Debian (Woody) installation is as easy/difficult as FreeBSD. I _think_ Debian _m

Re: Woody installer

2003-02-11 Thread Lukas Ruf
* Kesav Tadimeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 15:37]: > I am thinking of installing Debian. I do not, however, want to spend too > much time doing that. I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 before, so I'd like to > know if Debian (Woody) installation is as easy/difficult as FreeBSD. > I have not inst

Woody installer

2003-02-11 Thread Kesav Tadimeti
Hi all, I am thinking of installing Debian. I do not, however, want to spend too much time doing that. I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 before, so I'd like to know if Debian (Woody) installation is as easy/difficult as FreeBSD. Second, are most of the application packages (.DEB) contained within the 7

nfs backup from woody installer

2002-12-12 Thread Hugh Saunders
hello, have machine that would like to install debian on, but before i install i want to backup the entire disk to an nfs share. This is the procdure i am attempting to use: 1. boot from woody binary-1 cd using 'vanilla' [-is a nasty advent5372 laptop, crashses if i boot with bf24] 2. alt-f2

Woody installer

2001-12-31 Thread Penguin
The dev page on the Debian website says that the Woody installer is not yet available on CDs. If I get a CD set of the latest Woody now, will I get the Woody installer? (Anything has got to be better than the AWFUL potato installer ;-) -- Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Girls are for ple

Woody installer not allowing device selection

2001-08-29 Thread David McNab
Hi, I'm happily using potato, but my attempts to upgrade to woody have been frustrated by what looks like a bug. After selecting/formatting partitions, and just as the device selection menu is coming up, the menu shuts down and takes me to the 'enter hostname' menu, without giving me a chance to