[conspire] (forw) install linux on sony notebook computer

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

> So, you have 2.9 now? Are you sure you wouldn't rather have 3.9?

Er, sorry about that:  KNOPPIX_V3.9-2005-05-27-EN.iso is indeed what I
have.  Klaus's site says, by the way, that starting with 4.0, they'll
release the full Knoppix image only in DVD sizes, because it's simply
outgrown the CD format.  But they intend to still maintain a CD-sized
less-than-everything image, too.


I've also fetched KANOTIX-2005-03.iso for i386 and am slowly grabbing
the x86_64 equivalent.  After that, I'll grab Damn Small Linux 1.2.

All of those are just out.


> Also, any word on which magic date has been chosen for sarge to become
> the new "stable" branch?

It all did happen, earlier today:  The announcement was delayed for a
few hours inadvertantly, because of a mailing list glitch:
http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200506062345

...and the symlinks on the package mirrors _did_ get updated, and they
_did_ start "etch" as the new testing branch:

  rick at alfredo:~$ ncftp ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/
  NcFTP 3.1.8 (Jul 27, 2004) by Mike Gleason
  (http://www.NcFTP.com/contact/).
  Connecting to 128.101.80.133...
  saens.debian.org FTP server (vsftpd)
  Logging in...

  This site is just another one in a worldwide array of Debian mirrors.
  It is not the "primary Debian FTP site" -- it is merely an official
  mirror that is in the United States of America.

  If you are connecting from outside the USA, please consider using
  another official Debian mirror, one that is closer to you. This will
  likely help you by speeding up your downloads, and it will help us by
  lessening the load on this machine.

  Current list of Debian mirrors is at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list

  Login successful. Have fun.
  Sorry, I don't have help.
  Logged in to ftp.debian.org.
  Current remote directory is /debian/dists.
  ncftp /debian/dists > ls -al
  drwxrwsr-x    9 1176     1176         4096 Jun 06 17:41 .
  drwxr-xr-x    8 1176     1176         4096 Jun 07 19:56 ..
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            5 Jun 01 19:38 Debian3.0r6 -> woody
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            5 Jun 06 18:33 Debian3.1r0 -> sarge
  -rw-rw-r--    1 1176     1176          449 Jun 06 17:41 README
  drwxrwsr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 Jun 07 19:37 etch
  drwxrwsr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 Jun 07 19:37 etch-proposed-updates
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           23 Jan 13 05:08 experimental -> ../project/experimental
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            5 Jun 06 18:33 oldstable -> woody
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           22 Jun 06 18:33 proposed-updates -> sarge-proposed-updates
  drwxrwsr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 Jun 06 04:58 sarge
  drwxrwsr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 Jun 07 19:37 sarge-proposed-updates
  drwxrwsr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 Jun 07 19:38 sid
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            5 Jun 06 18:33 stable -> sarge
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           22 Jun 06 18:33 stable-proposed-updates -> sarge-proposed-updates
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            4 Jun 06 18:33 testing -> etch
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           21 Jun 06 18:33 testing-proposed-updates -> etch-proposed-updates
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            3 Jan 13 05:09 unstable -> sid
  drwxrwsr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 31 20:55 woody
  drwxrwsr-x    5 1176     1176        57344 Jun 06 17:42 woody-proposed-updates
  ncftp /debian/dists > 


They also found a really rather trivial error in the default
sources.list line on the newly released Official Debian 3.1r0 CD images,
and so are going to issue 3.1r0a images, to replace them:
http://www.advogato.org/person/vorlon/diary.html?start=11 Basically,
they forgot to update and un-comment the security-archive line.

I have no plans to replace my 3.1r0 netinst image, even as small as it
is, because I always look over sources.list and adjust it, anyway.