Re: Linux-to-Linux install wanted?
Adam Di Carlo wrote
> Especially when you can just install the materials on your hard drive,
> boot up with the rescue/root disk, and go from there.
...except my computer has no floppy or CD-ROM drive. But it does
have fat net connection. As more and more servers go into cages,
I expect you'll find other people wanting to do this sort of thing.
If there's a less bizarre way for me to install Debian without
using removable media, please tell me. I don't think these
changes should go into Potato either, but I would like to have
them eventually.
- Scott
>
> > A few days ago I described how, while running (almost) any Linux
> > distribution, Potato can be installed on another partition.
> > I found that a Linux-to-Linux install is very difficult now, but
> > with some work I think I can get it working well.
>
> That's because you installed it in a very very bizarre fashion. I
> don't understand why running dbootstrap in the existing OS, in single
> user mode, is all that interesting or critical for the Potato release.
>
> Especially when you can just install the materials on your hard drive,
> boot up with the rescue/root disk, and go from there.
>
> --
> .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
>
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