on Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:31:48PM -0500, Mike M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:04:34PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > <snip> > > Nope. I use Knoppix to boot from, make the "system image" as far as > > disks etc. I then mount those filesystems apropos and then run > > debootstrap in that directory and install a basic system. > > > > I then chroot into it and then update everything needed to make it work. > > Then install a new kernel that supports the hardware. > > > > All Done. Literally end of story. I have put woody on machines with SATA > > controllers that have only been out for 2.4.22+ to have drivers built in > > them. > > > > I don't have a single problem. > <snip> > > I end up having no knoppix type of system. You might consider doing > > something similar. > > > > The stuff I do is based in part on the the Debian Chroot Install @ > > twiki.iwethey.org > > > > Search in google... you will find it. > > Sounds a little hairy but if it gets me out of the unstable pool, then > it might be worth the effort. I shudder at the thought of a broken > "tar". I am perfectly capable of creating confusion and delay with my > own inventions.
http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall
There's also section 3.7 of the Debian Install Manual.
Think of Knoppix as a Debian boot disk on steroids. With games. And
techno....
Remember: there's nothing particularly magical about an installation.
You need:
- A booted system (the installer system itself). Here we're using
Knoppix.
- Paritition your target disk(s) as desired.
- Install desired packages.
- Install a kernel.
- Set some system configurations: keyboard, language, timezone,
hostname, root user, non-root user, networking, kernel modules.
- Install a bootloader.
- Boot the newly installed system.
Installers hold your hand through bits or most of this, but it's nothing
you can't do more-or-less manually. Both my method (using a base system
image) or debootstrap give you a lot of flexibility.
It's possible to do a remote chroot install (Emma Hogben reported on
this a few weeks ago -- converting her formerly Red Hat system to
Debian)
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/03/
further described at:
http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.html
...there's even an automated script for doing this reported at Slashdot
in the past month or so.
Flexible to the max.
Peace.
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