[geeks] Debian question

[Jochen Kunz]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:07:59 -0500
Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> Someone tell me what CD images I need to grab in order to have a
> semi-current/up-to-date system.. or should I just download "Stable"
> and then use apt or whatever it is now to upgrade everything?
Get stable, the first two CDs are enough most times. Consider to use one
of the XFS enabled install CDs. Ask Google for a download URL... Usually
you boot / install the base system from the XFS CD and the rest of the
installation is done with the regular CDs. When the base system is ready
I update / upgrade the rest via net. At the moment I am setting up a
machine at work with debian stable and kernel 2.6. Only "problem" was
that I needed to compile / install the XFS and LVM2 tools by hand. (The
old XFS tools work, but mkfs.xfs refused to work on a non-clean software
RAID1. LVM2 tools because they are not in debian stable, but required by
kernel 2.6.)
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       Jochen

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