Doc, I'm not quoting your message to keep this reply a bit shorter
If you have a working system now with a fast net connection, you can change
the /etc/apt/sources.list file by replacing the words stable by testing (woody
is now in testing) and then
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
and you will be upgraded.
If you want to install fresh, then...
rsync keeps down bandwidth by only downloading the differences in a file, so I
don't think it would make much of a difference if you don't have an image file
to start with. The command would be entered like
rsync -rP ftp.gpul.org::ftp/os/linux/cd-images/debian/woody/woody-i386-1.raw
. (the dot means rsync with the file in the current directory)
For that digital Tux site, you download the floppy images and then write them
to a disk with the dd command he shows. Then you use the rescue to boot with,
and it will ask for the root disk and start the debian installation.
the base*.tgz file you'll either need from to download or have a CD of it.
the && will run the next command if the previous one exits successfully.
I haven't used the reiserfs yet but I should play around with it. You can
just install normally and then convert your ext2 to ext3, which may be the
best way to go after all since it is supposedly backwards compatible.
I've always used lilo.
scott
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