debian reinstall

[Fraser Campbell]

On November 4, 2003 06:04 am, David J Patrick wrote:

>     b) the least painfull route to a fresh debian instable reinstall
> let me know ! I'm going to start nuking stuff this evening.

That question depends so much on your knowledge of Linux + your hardware that 
it's tough to answer.  I did an install a week ago of the testing 
distribution using the new debian-installer.  It was buggy and you need to be 
somewhat knowledgeable but it got the job done and was reasonably fast.  The 
debian-installer builds break from day-to-day so you may not be able to find 
a working installer.

My usual method for installing Debian is to use a net-install CD (about 180MB 
I think), that's plenty to install a basic system and from there I apt-get 
everything I need (whether, or not, I am upgrading to unstable afterwards).  
The net-install CD uses the regular Debian installer though.

Bonzai I haven't tried.  It seems to be the same idea as minideb that was 
created at the Clue Linux Centre a few years ago ... a small, configured, 
almost self-installing Debian.  It should be fairly easy to install Bonzai 
and then upgrade it to unstable ... I've never tried it, if you do please  
submit an install report here ;-)  

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