[ale] debian installer

[Preston]

I never do more than a netinstall, but I'm typically someplace with
decent bandwidth so it's not an issue.

I did like Bachata Linux for some vm's I did.

http://www.staldal.nu/bachatalinux/

It's serious when it says "minimal Debian based Linux system". I have
less than 350 MB installs.

On 1/9/2014 4:49 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> <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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