Re: Installing pure64 from scratch

[Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>]

Dan Helfman wrote:

| On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 18:46, dhess-debian-amd64@bothan.net wrote:
| > Assuming I'm starting from a blank hard drive with a CD-ROM and a
| > network connection, how do I install the pure64 port?
| 
| Well.. Here's one way..
| 
| 1. Install a distro that supports AMD64 (Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE).
| 2. Install the chrooted pure64 port on a separate partition.
| 3. Compile a 64-bit kernel deb or just use the kernel from the other
| distro.
| 4. Setup lilo or grub to use the separate Debian partition as the root
| directory.
| 5. Reboot.
| 
| Not ideal, but it should work.

Alternatively, boot from Knoppix (assuming it works on AMD64?),
partition the disc etc, untar the pure64 chroot directly onto the
partition, install a kernel and set up your choice of bootloader.  That
way you don't need to install another distribution on there just to
bootstrap it.

Cameron.