Re: Debian Sid first time user

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@xxxxxxxxx>:

Now for particular needs I want to try to use Sid with a > =
2.6.25-2-686 kernel.

Please can anybody indicate how to fetch and install a Debian Sid
distribution and how to manage it after installation (packages and so
on)?


Tuesday 05 August 2008, Javier Barroso wrote :

Rodolfo, Sid hasn't got a installer, you have to install lenny / etch
and then upgrade / full-upgrade to sid changing /etc/apt/sources.list
as people said.



Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

you can install a Debian with a business card and then you have
the choice in the release you want to grab (stable, testing or
unstable).



Thanks. But in Debian internet site I only found stable and testing business
card images, not sid ones. E.g.:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso

. There's nothing like:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-sid-i386-businesscard.iso

. So, after downloading and installing the testing business card iso image, I
suppose I have to do `apt-get update' and `apt-get dist-upgrade' as well, to
pass from testing to sid?

Besides, I read that a business card image does not include any packages; but
on the other hand I need the ppp package to download the rest: is ppp included
in a business card image?

Besides: what are, in general with a Debian upgrade, the proper commands?
`apt-get update' and `apt-get dist-upgrade' or instead full-upgrade or
safe-upgrade?

Excuse so many questions.

Thanks
Rodolfo


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