Upgrading a Debian box with a DVD

By Steven Rosenberg on September 3, 2009 11:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

That's what I'm going to try to do. I have a Macintosh G4/466 box that has been running Debian Etch for quite some time. I don't have it connected to a network at the moment, and I'd like to update it to Lenny without having to move it to a network connection.

So I'm going to use a DVD. I'm downloading the Debian Lenny DVD image for PowerPC, and I'm going to try to add that disc to the sources.list and do the initial upgrade that way.

Eventually I'll probably get networking into the box (especially if the kernel includes drivers for at least some of the NICs I have laying around), but just to jump-start it into the world of Debian Lenny, I hope this works.

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