Just to clarify:
Sarge *is* Debian. Sarge is a nickname for the "testing" distribution of Debian. This is explained here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/
Using *any* Debian install media (netinst, Sarge business card, etc) you can get to *any* other distribution of Debian, whether testing, stable, or unstable, with a simple apt-get command. If you want reiser support, you can likely just apt-get install it.
Personally, I don't like the Toy Story nicknames, because they are confusing over time. When I started with Debian, Potato was stable, Woody was testing, and Sarge was unstable. Now, Potato is non-existent, Woody is stable, Sarge is testing, and Sid is unstable. It changes every couple years. I would rather prefer that people refer to the distributions by stable/testing/unstable instead. Just a nitpick. :)
--Dave
Okay, maybe you could point me into the right direction what what went wrong. I download this bootable CD ISO file
ftp.au.debian.org/disks/1/debian-cd/debian-30r2-i386-binary-1.iso
and the install was not very friendly. Then I downloaded this bootable CD ISO file:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/i386/rc2/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
and the install was much more friendly, autodetected my hardware, gave me the option of ReiserFS, etc. Where did I go wrong? The Installations seemed nothing alike, but I sure liked the second one much better.
The second one produced this version number:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux debian 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.27-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9)) #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004
Is there an installation media that is just as friendly as the "testing" version, aka Sarge, for the "stable" version, aka Woody? Did I just pick the wrong CDs?
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