Re: forcing debian version at install time?

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Author: Bill Jonas
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: forcing debian version at install time?
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:20:29PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> I'm installing Debian from a netinst disk and it defaults to
> installing stable when I want unstable. I know I can apt-get
> dist-upgrade post install, but at one point in the near past I
> used a netinst image and it asked me what version of Debian I
> wanted to install. Anyone know of a way to force this with any
> netinst or is this a feature that only some netinst disks contain?


When you're choosing the Debian mirror, just go ahead and pick whatever
you normally would. When given the opportunity, pick "edit the
sources.list by hand" and just manually change "stable" to "unstable".

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