* Zefram | What would have avoided my confusion would be a note in the release list | or the installation manual (preferably both) explicitly saying "The | testing distribution cannot be installed directly; install stable and | then upgrade.". I can't currently find on the website any indication | that testing differs from stable in any respect other than the maturity | of the code.
But that's not true. What's true is that you can't install testing or sid using boot-floppies. However, boot-floppies are EOL-ed and being replaced with the new debian-installer. debian-installer was recently released in an alpha version, and until it is more stable, I think it is reasonable that it's not better documented how to get it installed. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-