Re: howto: downgrade lenny-sarge -or- fresh sarge install?
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 13:58 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: snip Just out of curiosity: do you intend to open a museum of modern software, or why else do you want to install sarge? :) I'm doing some embedded development on an arm board that ships with sarge and wanted a desktop up to plow around and look at files, experiment with packages in a friendly, slightly more stable environment. snip Your best bet is probably to set up a sarge chroot with debootstrap, Worked like a champ! Thanks so much. I continue to be impressed with debian. tc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
howto: downgrade lenny-sarge -or- fresh sarge install?
Hello all: Seeking some guidance on how to get a sarge install up on a x86 desktop. There aren't any hardware issues, lenny installs fine from CD+net. I tried booting from debian-sarge-3.1-mini.iso (downloaded from sarge archive). I manually adusted the mirrors to point to archive.debian.org/debian-archive.debian. and installer found the Releases file. When it hit the installer page of which...? stable, unstable... it couldn't find the files (presumably because directory structure changed when it was archived). I couldn't find a way to manually tell it files to install. I did a full of install of lenny (which is now up). Anyone have any suggestions on how to: downgrade the running lenny -or- how to install sarge directly? any pointers appreciated. I'm an experienced linux user, but new to Debian. I'm coming from rpm world of Fedora/RedHat/Centos so I'm new to apt,synaptic et all also. BTW I certainly like everything I see so far about debian. The developers certainly appear to get it thanks in advance tom campbell www.DinkumSoftware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: howto: downgrade lenny-sarge -or- fresh sarge install?
On 2009-04-18 11:35 +0200, tom campbell wrote:
Seeking some guidance on how to get a sarge install up on a x86 desktop.
There aren't any hardware issues, lenny installs fine from CD+net.
Just out of curiosity: do you intend to open a museum of modern
software, or why else do you want to install sarge?
I tried booting from debian-sarge-3.1-mini.iso (downloaded from sarge
archive). I manually adusted the mirrors to point to
archive.debian.org/debian-archive.debian. and installer found the
Releases file.
When it hit the installer page of which...? stable, unstable... it
couldn't find the files (presumably because directory structure changed
when it was archived). I couldn't find a way to manually tell it files
to install.
The reason is probably that there aren't any {{old,,un}stable,testing}
symlinks on archive.debian.org; it would be unclear to which
distributions they should point anyway.
I did a full of install of lenny (which is now up).
Anyone have any suggestions on how to:
downgrade the running lenny -or-
how to install sarge directly?
any pointers appreciated.
Your best bet is probably to set up a sarge chroot with debootstrap,
i.e. with the command
# debootstrap sarge ./sarge-chroot http://archive.debian.org/debian
If that works, you can chroot to that basic installation and install
more software. Note that setting up fstab and networking, installing a
kernel and a bootloader still needs to be done if you want to boot into
sarge; and you need an extra partition then as well.
Sven
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