debian renovation

[David J Patrick]

Fraser Campbell wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 04:16:19PM -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>I plan to use the latest Bonzai, and then bump that install up to
>>"unstable".
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>If Bonzai is a pure Debian system then that's probably reasonable, otherwise 
>I'd just use Debian's installer, it isn't pretty but it's reasonably 
>straightforward for i386.
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I believe it is all debian

>Even if you go with unstable for the install I would "dumb" it down to at 
>least testing after that ... and then to stable once the new Debian release 
>is out (RSN ;-).
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Start with unstable and work backwards ? all the way to stable ? Woody ??
sheesh, I'll be movin' rocks around the screen    ;-)

>  If you constantly track unstable (and even testing sometimes) you'll find yourself in pickles like you're in now ... rarely fatal but you need a good understanding of the package manager to resolve 
>them.
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I have much to learn about the packager; are you referring to dpkg or 
apt-get or both ?
Should I climb the "aptitude" learning curve, or what ?

>Here's how I always do it ...
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>Install bare minimum.  You'll have a system that boots and takes 100-200 MB of 
>diskspace (assuming testing/unstable).  After installation is "complete" then 
>you can begin the customisation process:
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>- run tasksel for easy installation of large group of packages (i.e. X core)
>- selectively run apt-get install ...
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>If you're a kde fan then I'd look for kde packages like this:
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>  apt-cache search kde | grep ^kde
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Honestly, I've been eager (but unable) to play in gnome2.6-land for some 
time.
Also, I'm itchin' to run kernel_2.6.x

>"apt-get install kde" might do it all but if you're using unstable you can 
>never trust that there are no conflicts.
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Damn ! I can't have my cake and eat it too ? I gotta learn MORE ? whew !

>How do you plan to do the new install?  Is your disk partitioned (i.e. 
>is /home, /var, etc separate from /)?  Is there data on your machine that you 
>care about, how have you backed it up?
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I have /home on a separate partition and have a partition I was goung to 
use for /usr, I could also separate /var and /etc, would you reccomend 
this ? What files system(s) would you reccomend ? ext3 ? xfs ? reiser3 ?
    and I'm 90% backed up .. (he slinks off and fires up k3b) .. thanks,
djp

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