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11-06-2005, 10:53 AM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 49
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Is it possible to install "Etch" now
Hi all,
I had "Sarge" running, but now I have removed it to fix something.
I am wondering that, if I would like to try "Etch", which is "testing",
Is it possible to install "Etch" from now ?
I didn't check in Debian website if they already provide "Etch" for download, so that I can burn it to CD and make an installation directly.
If not possible, Do I need to install "Sarge" again and upgrade from "Sarge" to "Etch" ??
Please suggest
Thanks in advance,
Alez
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11-06-2005, 11:04 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: near Seattle
Distribution: Debian/Ubuntu/Suse
Posts: 240
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I tried the etch net installer about 2 weeks ago, and it was broken due to security changes in apt. Check the bug page for the new installer. It might be fixed. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday
[19 Oct 05] secure apt [WWW] won't work with any debian CDs as it cannot validate them; this breaks all CD images except businesscard and netboot mini ISOs. Symptom: failed to install initrd-tools
Last edited by kmoffat; 11-06-2005 at 11:08 AM.
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11-06-2005, 11:05 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Herzliyya, Israel
Distribution: SuSE 10.1; Testing Distros
Posts: 1,832
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11-06-2005, 11:07 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Herzliyya, Israel
Distribution: SuSE 10.1; Testing Distros
Posts: 1,832
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Otherwise,
1. Install Sarge
2. Change sources in repositories from stable to testing
3. Make "Smart Upgrade" using Synaptic
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11-06-2005, 11:11 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: near Seattle
Distribution: Debian/Ubuntu/Suse
Posts: 240
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If I want to install etch from cd, how many of those cd's do I actually need to download/burn?
Just a thought:
debian-pure installs sarge from one cd. Easy install, but it will install grub to mbr without asking. Then upgrade to etch?
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11-06-2005, 11:16 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Herzliyya, Israel
Distribution: SuSE 10.1; Testing Distros
Posts: 1,832
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Base system is one 50MB netinstall. Full system 2 DVDs
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11-06-2005, 02:28 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Lelystad, NL
Distribution: Debian Etch
Posts: 123
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I downloaded and installed testing using netinstall a couple of days ago and it worked fine. I saw some minor differences with the installer of Sarge, but that where just some new questions that where asked. No big deal 
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11-06-2005, 03:48 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: slack 13; I've used it all :)
Posts: 433
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did the net install yesterday. No issues.
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11-08-2005, 02:18 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Mint, MX, antiX, SystemRescue
Posts: 2,337
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Quote:
Originally posted by kmoffat debian-pure installs sarge from one cd. Easy install, but it will install grub to mbr without asking.
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??? You get to chose to install grub or not, and also where to install it. I chose to install it to my /boot partition and that's exactly where the installer put it. Didn't touch my MBR at all (although I always backup the MBR before installing ANY operating system - just to be safe!) I believe the default is to install to the MBR, but you certainly don't have to accept that default.
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11-08-2005, 07:53 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: near Seattle
Distribution: Debian/Ubuntu/Suse
Posts: 240
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Are you referring to "debian-pure"? or to the actual debian distribution. When I installed debian-pure I was not given, or missed, the grub install choice. In debian it worked as expected. (I have only done debian-pure once, so could be mistaken)
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11-08-2005, 09:13 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Distribution: Mint, MX, antiX, SystemRescue
Posts: 2,337
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Quote:
Originally posted by kmoffat
Are you referring to "debian-pure"?
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Oh. My mistake. Sorry about that. I saw what you wrote, but had never heard of "debian-pure" as an actual term. I mistakenly interpreted that to mean "real Debian", as opposed to "Debian-based" (like Ubuntu or Knoppix). Live and learn I guess. I feel like Rosanne Rosannadanna from the old SNL. "Oh. Never mind!"
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11-09-2005, 06:28 AM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: near Seattle
Distribution: Debian/Ubuntu/Suse
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Debia-pure is a debain based distro that does a very easy install of debian. Check it out.
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11-09-2005, 10:43 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Northeast Ohio
Distribution: linuxdebian
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you can use the standard netinstall iso for sarge.
at the boot: prompt add linux26 expert that will install the 2.6 kernel by default during the install and it will ask you a LOT of extra questions. so it makes the install a bit more difficult but the one question it does ask is "do you want to install: Stable, Testing, or Unstable at which point you could choose testing (etch)
no need to grab special isos or daily builds the netinstall does it all..
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
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