On 15 Apr 01, at 11:37, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jay W. Anderson wrote: > > > On 14 Apr 01, at 16:17, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jay W. Anderson wrote: > > > > > > > I'm trying to do my 1st debian install as a network install of woody. > > > > > > Are you choosing ftp install, or what? > > The only options on this installer are cdrom, network, already > > mounted & nfs. The help/readme says that the only network protocol > > currently supported is http. This is a different setup program than > > what I remember when I tried to install potato a while ago. It now > > claims that woody is the stable release. The disc images have a > > creation date of 4/1302001 ~23:00. > > That's weird. I've seen nothing that says woody's stable. www.debian.org > says (still) that the latest release is 2.2r2 (potato) released > 5-Dec-2000. > Thats what I thought as well, that it was weird. All of the documentation that I've seen has said that potato is stable, but in this installer it says that woody is stable and potato is archived, no longer supported. It could be that I've stumbled upon advance notice of woody going stable, like when RH didn't put deny all on the 7.1 dir last week. I did forward my emails to the debootstrap maintainer. Maybe he will reply as to what the deal is. > Since you apparently have the bandwith to do net install, could you > either do it in pieces or by ISO? Or you could go get the potato > installer, install that, then upgrade to woody. Not quicker, I know. I may have to. (potato->woody) but I thought I'd check to see if I was missing something silly or if someone else had seen this and knew what was going on. Jay