Re: strange question
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 12:01:34PM -0500, jon wrote:
> Is there a way to install a distribution from inside of Linux? Here's the
> problem, I have a scsi card/disk that I would like to boot from, but none
> of the dists will boot an accept the card, so I had to install on the ide
> drive, tweak the kernel, and then am able to mount the drive, so is there
> a way to boot from the ide drive and install a dist onto the scsi drive
> then to chroot and build it a correct kernel? I guess another option would
> be to fix one of the boot disks, or fix one of the kernels and replace it
> and either burn another cd, or put all of it on the scsi drive and then
> install. Please advise.
My first question would be what SCSI card? What did you have to change
in the kernel to get it to mount? It may be that one of the flavors of
boot-floppies already supports your card. If not, that's probably a bug.
If not, the Debian Installation Manual has instructions for replacing
the kernel on the rescue disk with a custom kernel, see the following
link.
<http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel>
Hope that helps.
Stephen
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