Re: [TCLUG:11404] Debian 2.2 (Potato)?

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

debian provides ISO images of their distros, for stable release.. I do not
recomend making a CD of the potato tree, it's mostly a waste of time, and
it can be dificult because of the symlinks.. best bet is to get the ISO
for 2.1r4, and burn that.. and install a base system, and then apt-get
upgrade to potato

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:

> Do you have any recommendations on how to download and make an install CD?
> What directories should I have and what would the structure look like?  I
> have a 2.1 CD for reference.
> 
> Tom Veldhouse
> veldy@visi.com
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>
> To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 11:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:11404] Debian 2.2 (Potato)?
> 
> 
> > Thomas T. Veldhouse said:
> > > Does anybody know when Debian 2.2 will be released?
> >
> > The current freeze date is January 15.  Potato is being held up by
> problems
> > with the install disks, but I'm not sure of their nature.  (I've heard
> that
> > the Potato install disks are functional, so I suspect they just want to
> add
> > more features to the installer.)
> >
> > I don't know if you've used Debian before, but everything's generally
> pretty
> > solid before it even makes it into unstable.  I run three Potato systems
> and
> > have only gotten into trouble because of it once.  (There was a bad su
> which
> > would only let root use it - which I suppose some people would consider a
> > feature rather than a bug anyhow.  It was fixed the next day.)
> >
> > Assuming you've got a good (read: fast) network connection (or a lot of
> > time), you can install a minimal Slink, edit /etc/apt/sources.list to
> > point at 'unstable' instead of 'stable', apt-get update, and then install
> > Potato packages to your heart's content.  (Running a mixed Slink/Potato
> > system isn't much of a problem either, except that they have (apparently)
> > incompatible versions of perl which could be a PITA to deal with.)
> >
> > > Debian 2.1 is from last
> > > March and it is still on the 2.0.x kernel.
> >
> > Actually, the Slink CD in the back of ORA's Debian book ('Learning Debian
> > GNU/Linux') includes kernel 2.2.12 packages, so I think that's been
> accepted
> > into stable.
> >
> > > I can not install it because my
> > > system will not but the basic kernel because of one of the options they
> > > chose.
> >
> > If you can't boot the default kernel, I don't see how a new version (which
> is
> > likely to have been compiled with the same options) will help.
> >
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