Re: Install Debian 'Manually'? YES!!!

[Christoph Kobe <christoph@kobelix.de>]

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 18-02-2005 alle 14:18 +0100, Christoph Kobe ha scritto:
> [...]
>
> > I now need to install a minimal system I think. What would be a good way 
> > to do that? I have Internet connection available but the paths are not 
> > correct, since the root '/' is mounted on '/mnt/sda1' because I'm still 
> > booting from the knoppix cd.
>
>
> You may create your filesystem, mount it as /target, and install a
> minimal system using the dbootstrap command. After you did it, just
> issue che command 'chroot /target' in order to switch to the new system.
> then, you have to mount /proc, create your own /etc/fstab, install your
> kernel, install a boot loader debian package, install the boot loader in
> your mbr, reboot.
>
> Once you rebooted you still need to configure the complete system:
> network, hostname, apt sources, language, keyboard, ...
>
> HTH,
> Giuseppe

Hey, it worked!

I got lots of errors and warnings but I finally got a console :-)
(none) login:

OK, thanks a lot. By the way, please spell d*e*bootstrap correctly to 
the next person, it might save up a lot of time...

Now I can have fun configuring the rest, but I think I can go on alone, 
and it's not the business of the boot-people anyway!

Thanks,

Chris