potato info

[Alan DuBoff]

Joey Hess wrote:

> I wouldn't call potato half-baked, but it really needs some more time in the
> oven before it's as tasty as hamm. (Now see what you made me say. :-)

Basically I was trying to find out if it did need more time in the oven. I
want the 2.2.x kernel though, and I saw that slink had a tarball of it on
there. But it seems that the potato code is where I want to go today/tomorrow.
I want to get away from Red Hat and Debian seems like the distro for me. I saw
a guy running the latest stuff with GNOME/E on it and it looked nice. Actually
I know a bunch of people running Debian.

I was shying away from it as one person I know is running 2.0.x and his grep
didn't have recursion in it. I found that out the hard way trying to grep
through a bunch of directories. Funny that something so simple as grep would
prevent me from installing it, but I've been busy with the project I'm working
on. Anyway, the new potato stuff has recursion in the grep, I did check that
out...;-) I noticed they seperated the GNOME/E out into a special dev 'thang,
which is good. I gotta have that...

> I would encourage you to install from the 2.0 cd and upgrade via the net.
> You won't lose anything by installing this way.
> 
> If you want you can even just install the base system off the cd (boot from
> it, answer the questions, reboot, get up on the net), and then immediatly
> reconfigre apt to download stuff from unstable over the net and upgrade to
> unstable from that point and then install other packages on top of the base
> system.
> 
> A quote from http://cdimage.debian.org/ that seems appropriate:
> 
>    If you are installing Debian for the first time, you should either do an
>    ftp install or save yourself a lot of aggravation and buy a CD from a
>    vendor near you.

Now we're talkin...ftp install, I looked around all the install guide (DiCarlo
et all) and cruised around the godfather's tips (linuxmafia), but didn't see
anything about ftp install (I wonder, if you cross the godfather, do you wake
up with a potato head bleedin' in your bed? :-/ ). I would prefer to do that,
especially if I could do it from my Red Hat paritition, then I could install
Debian on my Thinkpad easily also.

The advice I was given from a friend was to install the bare minimum, then
upgrade the packages I want. That sound ok to me.

Let me go check around for some info on that.

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Alan DuBoff - Conductor
Software Orchestration, Inc.
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