Martin Kleinschmidt wrote: > So I have 2 versions of linux running (gentoo and redhat 7.2). > Isn't it possible to install debian (on an empty partition) from one of > the other linux systems? > Something like copying a minimal system to the root partition, boot into > that and continue install?
Sure. Here are some pointers to useful documentation. http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade I don't think it is architecture specific. I also think it strange that your USB keyboard is not working with linux. Many of my machines only have a USB keyboard and they have all worked fine with linux. The problems I have had were when the machine's firmware BIOS did not support USB keyboards. For those I needed to use a ps2 keyboard to configure the BIOS. After I got them booting they were fine. Bob
