On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote:
> I want to upgrade from sarge to etch, and have purchased a 3 DVD
> Debian etch set. However my DVD player/reader is external, attached
> to a usb port, and I can't boot from that.
>
> Is there a way of installing by taking a few files from the first
> DVD, putting them onto a CD, or on my machine, and then do a minimal
> install and get the rest of the stuff from the DVDs on my external
> DVD reader?
>
> Or can someone suggest a different path to this goal?
>
Some ideas:
1. Have you read the installation manual? It provides all the
different boot and install options for your arch (i386?).
2. What will your box boot?
-floppy? then boot floppy
-CD? then download the netinst.iso file, burn that, and
use the DVD as a local repository.
-USB? then download the hd-media.img, copy to a USB
stick then either use the DVD as a local
repository or if its a big enough USB, copy the
DVD image to the USB stick.
-Hard drive? Then copy the hd-media files to a fresh
partition on the drive.
3. If this is just an upgrade from Sarge to Etch, just use
apt-cdrom to add the DVD as a repository, then do an apt-update.
There are a few issues with this path: read the release notes
first and have a backup in case something goes wrong.
Doug.
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