On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:58:53AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > I've been running varios distros for a number of years (starting with > slack about 6 years ago) and never got into debian. It's about time I > did. I'm a bleeding edge kinda guy, and wanted to play with the latest > code. So I'm looking at sid. Sid doesn't have install disks yet, so > I'm wondering what the best way is to get up and running. Do I go the > woody route and dist-upgrade?
Yeah, go for woody. The sid distribution, a.k.a. unstable, will never have install disks as such: it feeds into the release branch, but doesn't release itself. woody and sid aren't really all that much different right now, of course. > My preference is to download the absolute minimum and net-install a > minimal system. From the install guide it looks like I have to install > a number of floppies (yuck). Has anyone done this using a minimal > CDROM instead? There's a so-called "netinst" CD which you can try. It's the first link from http://cdimage.debian.org/ ("Download a minimal bootable CD image"). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]