What's the best way to install Debian Unstable?
Do you start with a minimal Stable install and then upgrade it?
Or can the Unstable be downloaded and burned to CD or DVD?
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Chris

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:59:25 +0000, Chris wrote:

> What's the best way to install Debian Unstable?
> Do you start with a minimal Stable install and then upgrade it?
> Or can the Unstable be downloaded and burned to CD or DVD?

I believe you install a standard Debian, change the repositories and then
upgrade.

On 2006-03-23, Chris <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> What's the best way to install Debian Unstable?
> Do you start with a minimal Stable install and then upgrade it?
> Or can the Unstable be downloaded and burned to CD or DVD?

I don't know the best way but I know what worked for me and what I liked:

http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ or a next page,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ (choose your poison...).

Once I had the single CD (that a friend had to make for me) I booted up,
learned how to use 'dselect', and the rest...

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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:59:25 +0000, Chris wrote:

> What's the best way to install Debian Unstable?
> Do you start with a minimal Stable install and then upgrade it?
> Or can the Unstable be downloaded and burned to CD or DVD?

I use net install and then:

- configure my /etc/apt/sources.list, as described here:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap...basico.en.html

- apt-get update

- apt-get dist-upgrade

HTH

--rob

rob wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:59:25 +0000, Chris wrote:
>
>> What's the best way to install Debian Unstable?
>> Do you start with a minimal Stable install and then upgrade it?
>> Or can the Unstable be downloaded and burned to CD or DVD?
>
> I use net install and then:
>
> - configure my /etc/apt/sources.list, as described here:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap...basico.en.html
>
> - apt-get update
>
> - apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> HTH
>

I'd go along with that, though I've also installed X and Synaptic on
Sarge and upgraded from there.

There's no real point in a CD of Unstable, as you get a different
version every day. You might just as well install the latest versions
of everything when you dist-upgrade as do it once from CD and again
when you run apt-get upgrade the next time. Unstable should always
be reachable from a basic Sarge, while some jumps between different
ages of Unstable can be difficult. I've never had a failure to boot
after a big Unstable upheaval, but I've had a non-working X several
times.

Joe <joe@jretrading.com>:
> rob wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:59:25 +0000, Chris wrote:
> >
> >> What's the best way to install Debian Unstable?

Anyone asking that question shouldn't be running unstable.


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