[RULE] Debian-from Testing to Unstable was slinky-0.5.03 for Fedora Core 4 FC4

Richard Kweskin rkwesk at hellug.gr
Sun Oct 16 14:12:15 EEST 2005


On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:13:52 -0500 (CDT)
James Miller <jamtat at mailsnare.net> wrote:
 
> You could have switched repositories from testing to unstable right after 
> the base install to get more bleeding edge stuff. That's what I've done 
> when I installed Debian like that on older hardware. It's very simple: 
> just edit /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all instances of "testing" with 
> "unstable" and then run apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade. Last 
> minimal install I did like that ended up being around 400-600 MB, IIRC. 
> Same results as Ingo got for his Ubuntu minimal install attempt, as I 
> recall.
> 
> James
>
Thank you for that info, James.

Richard

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