On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Ambrosio Berdijo Jr. wrote:
> Off topic, Slackware allows me to burn a bootable ISO image of its
> current version. No need to wait for the next version's ISO. Can Debian
> do the same? or you always install the base-files and upgrade (via APT)?
yes. with debian you can burn in between official release versions of a
bootable ISO image. the assumption though is that you maintain some kind
of local mirror. in fact, i have made several CD-Rs of in between release
ISOs. you can opt to burn an "Official" version, in which case your
mirror's contents are compared with the "official" version and "fixed" to
match the current official release for putting into the ISO. ang medyo
madugo nga lang ngayon yung process of setting up a mirror. my observation
is that Debian seems not to be designed as a CD-ROM distribution as it is
more a network distribution. the nifty thing is, if you have a good
bootable disk and a really fat Internet connection, you could actually
just boot off the disk and possibly install everything else from off the
fat pipe. pretty much like FreeBSD. :>
you can upgrade progressively without reinstall. that is, between versions
(e.g. 2.1->2.2) you switch the apt sources.list to point to the new
version, do an 'apt-get update', then 'apt-get dist-upgrade' and you have
upgraded from the previous version to the next.
you can opt to keep up with all the latest and the greatest of all
packages as they are released (assuming they're in the debian archives or
on unofficial apt sources). in fact, a lot of people do an 'apt-get
update', 'apt-get upgrade' everyday. that way, you always have up-to-date
package versions regardless of release. occasionally, there will be some
package dependency that keeps back the upgrades but the package dependency
usually gets resolved by doing an 'apt-get update'.
ymmv
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