Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 22:20, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 10:47, Richard Atterer wrote: > > > > For debian-cd - is it true that the current netinst images can be > > > > used to install unstable. > > > > > > No, that is not correct. The _businesscard_ image can be used to > > > install unstable if booted in expert mode of with "priority=medium". > > > > Is this feature documented somewhere? > > It is a logical consequence the fact that a netinst image contains the > base system (from Etch). A businesscard image does not but download the > base system from a mirror; as mirror selection only allows to select the > suite at medium or low priority, the default install will still install > Etch while you have a choice at lower priorities. > netboot installations also allow to install unstable for the same reason. > > But no, it is probably not really documented as such.
When I change my laptop (soon I hope) I will experiment with that feature. There is no need for me to install a whole stable or testing base system, just to dist-upgrade to sid. I will try to document this, but not too much. We don't want to encourage inexperienced users to run unstable ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
