[ILUG] Debian install

[Martin Feeney]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:10:34 Mel wrote:
> 
> Only getting around to doing this now. Will the Potato installation disks
> do me for installing woody? The disks-i386 seems remarkably empty

Woody is just a set of upgrades on top of potato and not a distribution in
itself. Debian distributions rarely have boot disks until they've been
released as stable distributions.

Just do a minimal potato install then change your /etc/apt/sources.list to
also include woody.

So if your /etc/apt/sources.list has:

deb ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib
non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
non-free

then also _add_:

deb ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib
non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib
non-free

Do "apt-get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade". This will get you to a minimal
woody install. Next run dselect and do an update, then select whatever
packages you want to install.

Martin.

PS: if you're feeling really brave, you could go straight for the sid
distribution. I use it and it only breaks every couple of weeks, but if you
keep and eye on which packages are being upgraded you can watch out for
potential problems.