[H-GEN] Debian install newbie

[David Duffy]

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> David Duffy wrote:
> 
>> I've just noticed that there is a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that
>> mentions "unstable"! What's that all about? Should I just throw the
>> apc CD's in the bin and get stable iso's to start off fresh with?
>> A couple of web sites I've found warn of problems with mixing stable
>> and unstable versions. Is this perhaps what's going wrong here?

Michael Anthon wrote:
> Put these lines into /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://public.planetmirror.com.au/pub/debian stable main 
> contrib non-free
> deb-src http://public.planetmirror.com.au/pub/debian-non-US 
> stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> 
> 
> Maybe use mirror.aarnet if you get a better connection to it.  3.0r1 is 
> the stable branch and should work well enough for an initial play 
> around.  If you want cool new stuff and later versions of things you 
> would use unstable.
> 
> Edit the sources.list as above and run 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get 
> install apache' and it should fix itself.  If you want to try out 
> unstable instead change the stable to unstable in sources.list and then 
> run 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get dist-upgrade' adn then sit 
> back and wait... can take a while if you are dialup 8^).

Hi Michael,
How do I tell if the Debian version on my CD is stable/unstable?
If it is stable, why the reference to unstable in sources.list?
I should know better than to trust magazine CDs! :-)
David...
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