[ale] debian installer

[Boris Borisov]

<rant>

I just download bigger Debian 3.1 ISO and installed base form there.

Base install + xfree + icewm-lite + mozilla suite = 407 MB

Those days of "lean and mean" are gone :)

<\rant>

On 1/5/14, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:
> On 1/5/2014 09:06, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> Is anybody familiar in deep with Debian installer. In short I'm trying to
>> test something on 2.4 kernel etc. installing Debian 3.1 sarge.  I have
>> small network install Iso . When I point server URL at
>> archive.Debian.orginstaller looks for old stable/stable/testing
>> directories but on archive
>> server are only names of the the versions. So I'm looking to change
>> installer to look for sarge dir. I know I can just download bigger Iso
>> install base distro and change source for apt. So this is more of a
>> hacking
>> question and challenge, how to change old stable/stable/testing to sarge
>> and others names. Thank you and wish you all the best through 2014.
>>
>
> You put the name of the version where you would normally have stable,
> testing, unstable, etc.  (Debian calls this "pinning" since it gets used
> frequently to lock a version and prevent unexpected distribution upgrades).
>
> You should be able to edit the sources during install.  If you have
> direct access to the sources.list file then you'd modify them this way:
>
> #stable format:
> #deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
> #pinned format:
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
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