The system should really install the bootloader before installing software
after minimal so that a basic level of functionality is there in case of an
accident.
So I didn't restart the installer but I did everything manually.
Simply, mount the hard drive you have Linux on.
mount /dev/sdfoo /mnt
Mount special directories
mount /dev /mnt/dev
mount /proc /mnt/proc
mount /sys /mnt/sys
Chroot into the mount
chroot /mnt
Install grub
apt-get install
Some caveats - a) I've never done exactly this so I can't promise it
will work b) I strongly question the wisdom of running Trisquel on a
machine too small to run the text mode installer.
Having said those the procedure will be something like
boot text mode install
get past select language and
Yeah, my machine has 4GB of space. I suspect the actual reason the kernel
crashed was that I booted the machine in legacy mode and the legacy BIOS code
wasn't tested with Linux so the kernel mapped special hardware memory as
usable memory which caused bad things.
Seems you did better than I could remember off the top of my head
(i.e. /dev) in between the time I started typing and my next email
refresh. :-)
A pox on cheap BIOSes, I'm sure you'll agree.
So for other reasons (EFI support is flaky) I need to redo the above stuff
with grub-efi but I also need to install grub-efi first. I need to get some
network stuff running so I can do DNS inside the chroot and apt-get can
resolve the archives.
How do I get the net stuff working as well
