Re: [TCLUG:11404] Debian 2.2 (Potato)?

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>]

Do you have any recommendations on how to download and make an install CD?
What directories should I have and what would the structure look like?  I
have a 2.1 CD for reference.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:11404] Debian 2.2 (Potato)?


> Thomas T. Veldhouse said:
> > Does anybody know when Debian 2.2 will be released?
>
> The current freeze date is January 15.  Potato is being held up by
problems
> with the install disks, but I'm not sure of their nature.  (I've heard
that
> the Potato install disks are functional, so I suspect they just want to
add
> more features to the installer.)
>
> I don't know if you've used Debian before, but everything's generally
pretty
> solid before it even makes it into unstable.  I run three Potato systems
and
> have only gotten into trouble because of it once.  (There was a bad su
which
> would only let root use it - which I suppose some people would consider a
> feature rather than a bug anyhow.  It was fixed the next day.)
>
> Assuming you've got a good (read: fast) network connection (or a lot of
> time), you can install a minimal Slink, edit /etc/apt/sources.list to
> point at 'unstable' instead of 'stable', apt-get update, and then install
> Potato packages to your heart's content.  (Running a mixed Slink/Potato
> system isn't much of a problem either, except that they have (apparently)
> incompatible versions of perl which could be a PITA to deal with.)
>
> > Debian 2.1 is from last
> > March and it is still on the 2.0.x kernel.
>
> Actually, the Slink CD in the back of ORA's Debian book ('Learning Debian
> GNU/Linux') includes kernel 2.2.12 packages, so I think that's been
accepted
> into stable.
>
> > I can not install it because my
> > system will not but the basic kernel because of one of the options they
> > chose.
>
> If you can't boot the default kernel, I don't see how a new version (which
is
> likely to have been compiled with the same options) will help.
>
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