> With 'debian unstable' you mean perhaps the 'weekly builds' from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/ > and do I need all 5 DVD or only the first one?
debian basically exists in three flavours: - stable - testing - unstable (sid == "still in development") stable is, as the name suggests, the thoroughly tested and usually recommended flavour with regular security updates and little updates above that. with a expeted life span of maybe 2 years and more it is softwarewise rather conservative. testing is the upcoming stable, ie when tested fully and w/o (grave) bugs, it will be promoted to stable and the current stable will be phased out. unstable is more or less bleeding edge, a lot of software is very up to date -- but not yet fully tested. additionally there are no security updates (whith the unstable policy they are not needed since the packages are updated very often anyway). you can install every flavour with the minimal netinst iso, which i8nstalls everything from inet -- thus no need to download big images of which only a fraction is used. ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/debian-mirror/debian-cd/4.0_r6/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r6-i386-netinst.iso should be the stable netinst image. depending on the netinst image you choose, either stable or testing are installed. install the minimal system (ie until debian wants you to restart after installation), after reboot edit your /etc/apt/sources.list, remove the line for secutity updates and change every occurence of "stable" to "unstable" like deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free to deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free and make sure you got a deb-src line like deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free i do not have emdebian in my sources.list on this computer (only at home), but according to google add the following line to your sources.list deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ testing main and then you can start with lindi's steps. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
