On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:10:21PM EDT, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 08:36:08PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > >Just for the record: I tried installing "etch" about three months ago > >but the installer was unable to detect my PC card. I fooled him by going > > Ah, I can see where that might be a problem. I've never installed in > that manner - I install into stable, as you did, and once I'm up and > running with a minimal system I edit my /etc/apt/sources.list to testing > and do "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" which moves my whole > system up to testing. Once Debian is installed there is never (in my > experience) a reason to reinstall. > -- > Sounds like something I could try. The reason I tried to install testing directly is that I used to run RedHat. I freed up a 4G partition on my HD and did a chroot install of sarge - testing at the time.. so I could take my time evaluating debian while keeping my 'live' system (and switching from RH to debian and back via a swift Ctrl+Alt+F7/F8..)
Now 18 months later the RH system is long gone and I'm a pretty satisfied user of debian. The reason I tried doing a new install instead of upgrading my current system was mainly that I wanted more space - the space freed up by former RH system - about 10G - and that I prefer to keep stuff like /var.. /tmp in separate partitions. So the current situation is that I have about 2/3 of my hard drive dedicated to a system that's half installed - the only useful part of it is the grub conf file :-) - and no time at all right now to revive this install. But thanks much for the reminder. I had read about this approach being the "debian way" of upgrading and I will keep it in mind. When I have the time I will try installing etch - see if they have fixed the installer - and if not try to install sarge and upgrade. Thanks, cga PS. Apologies to the list for the [OT].
