1 quick debian question

[Fiveohhh]

Which boot cd do I need? I'm guessing the generic or the vanilla. Its going on a pc that is going to serve files and thats it. its a 500mhz or so and 2 ide drives no scsi or anything fancy.
THanks

 

[drag]

The easiest thing to do is to just use the boot cd from the "official" woody cd set.

Then you do the base install off of that.

Then from that you can upgrade to "testing" and/or "unstable" if you want. For my desktop I use unstable, for a firewall/router I am building at this time I am using testing and unstable.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

The official woody cd will give you a 2.2 kernel... not good. I would use a bf24 woody install mini-iso, or better yet, a sarge mini-iso

 

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
The official woody cd will give you a 2.2 kernel... not good. I would use a bf24 woody install mini-iso, or better yet, a sarge mini-iso

With the mini ISO does that basically give me a barebones install and than I'd dl the packages I want? If thats the case, are the three iso's mainly just packages?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

With the mini ISO does that basically give me a barebones install and than I'd dl the packages I want?

Yep

If thats the case, are the three iso's mainly just packages?

.. three ISOs? What 3 ISOs? The full debian (woody) distribution is something like 7 cds, and that includes all packages.

 

[Fiveohhh]

was looking at linuxiso.org and saw the 7 cds, but thought the first 5 just were variations of the boot disk. Thanks for the info though, really starting to like linux more and more everyday

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Ah, the first 5 cds are all boot cds, but they double as package cds. The installer stuff really doesn't take much space on a cd.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
The official woody cd will give you a 2.2 kernel... not good. I would use a bf24 woody install mini-iso, or better yet, a sarge mini-iso

The testing or unstable cd's that I've used always seem to crap out at one point or another. The official cd is the only one that ever worked properly for me.

You can always upgrade the kernel to a 2.4 or 2.6 one after you finished the install if you want. That's what I do.

The major issue that I am aware of is that you have to format everything in ext2 which sucks, but upgrading to ext3 is painless.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Or just use the bf24 install disk, which has a 2.4 kernel and ext3.

 

[Nothinman]

The testing or unstable cd's that I've used always seem to crap out at one point or another

d-i is still in a major state of flux, if you really want to install straight to sarge or sid I would suggest a build that was done in the last day or so.

There are also XFS netinstall CDs, which I recommend over ext3.