Re: on Debian/Alpha

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

Speaking of which...I'll try to follow up on getting some ISOs built for
woody (it's in freeze now, so a release isn't too far away).  I believe
I'm behind on that task anyway.

C

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Ron Farrer wrote:

> Igor Schein (igor@txc.com) wrote:
> 
> > A good starting point is www.debianplanet.org.  There seem to be 2 releases.
> > Potato is a stable release, and there's an alpha iso image of it on
> > all mirrors.  It's *old* - Apr 2001, but there appears to be a way to
> > upgrade it to 2.4 kernel.  Woody is the current release at works, but
> > I couldn't find alpha iso for it.
> 
> Correct, potato is the current 'stable' release. woody is 'testing' and
> will eventually become 'stable'. You basically have three choices to get
> to a 2.4.x kernel:
> 
> 1) Install potato and dist-upgrade to woody; or
> 2) Install potato and build the required packages for 2.4.x from source 
>    for potato (take the source packages from testing).
> 3) Build your own CD ISO image set from woody using the Pseudo-Image
>    Kit. See http://cdimage.debian.org/
> 
> HTH,
> Ron
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> Email: <rbf@farrer.net> or <rbf@debian.org>
> 
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