Quoting sooraj kenoth (2014-08-25 15:51:38)
> 2014-08-25 14:29 GMT+05:30 shirish शिरीष :
>
>> Why are you sharing etch release documentation. Are you running
>> Debian Etch is version 4.0 way out of support infrastructure
>> (released 2007 - official support ended 2010).
>
> That was the only document I could find.
>
> I just want to run the Debian/Ubuntu installer from existing
> installation without remastering it, or without converting it to a
> live disk image.
>
> Here I have a GNU/Linux installation. I am looking for an installer
> which can be run as an application as any other application, but with
> root privilege, to do a linux installation to an another drive.
You want something between these two extremes:
a) copy system from one disk to another, and adapt for new hardware
b) install a fresh system and adapt it to match the old one
At the most basic level, you can do b) from your old system by use of
low-level tool debootstrap (or alternatives cdebootstrap or multistrap).
...or you can use some tool that calls debootstrap for you and automates
more parts of the migration - but the more the tool does for you, the
higher the risk that it does it "wrong" - i.e. preserves things you
didn't want preserved or vice versa.
What I prefer to do myself is this:
a) install a basic system (unselect all!) with debian-installer
b) resolve which packages you had installed on your old system:
apt-mark showmanual
c) install the resolved list of packages on new system
d) move over other data...
I am developing a tool - boxer - to help structure this process for many
similar systems. You are quite welcome to try play with that tool, but
beware it is far from polished yet. If interested, I suggest you join
#debian-in on IRC, where Vasudev and I are collaborating on that.
- Jonas
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