pierpaolo: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote: > >> ...you can use debootstrap to reinstall without using the installer and >> without repartitioning your hard drive. You just need a swap partition >> large enough to hold the base system. > > How is this supposed to work, please? The basic idea: swapoff /dev/sdX mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdX mount /dev/sdX /somewhere debootstrap /somewhere chroot /somewhere grub-install /dev/sdX exit modify menu.lst to use /dev/sdX as root device reboot copy necessary system configuration from old-root-device mkfs.ext3 /dev/old-root-device clone new system to old-root-device reboot mkswap /dev/sdX swapon /dev/sdX There are moe specific HOWTOs about the process on the net. J. -- Television advertisements are the apothesis of twentieth century culture. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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