Debian Question

[David Mangani]

Stan Hiller wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 19:04, David Mangani wrote:
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>>There seems to be 14 i386 images to "Sarge" the testing version. Anyone 
>>know how many of the 14 iso's I might need to get a basic version up and 
>>running with X? 
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>The easiest way to accomplish what you're after would be to download a
>minimal install cd for stable and install that. Then edit your
>/etc/apt/sources.list file and change every instance of 'stable' to
>'testing'. Except for security.debian.org, of course. Like so:
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>deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
>non-free
>deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
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>Do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade', and then you're all current with testing's
>latest and greatest.
>
>Regards;
>Stan
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Thanks for the quick reply Stan, I appreciate it. I'm kind of in between 
right now as I have already downloaded 4 full iso's. LOL Oh well, I 
suppose I could go get the minimum install cd and go that route.

Thanks again
Dave