Installing debian from redhat
See section 6.3.2 Installing from a Linux Partition. You just need the rescue
floppy, and you put drivers.tgz and base2_2.tgz on the hard disk in a
partition that you will *not* be overwriting during the install. E.g., if you
have /home on a separate partition, put them there. You have to make sure the
directory structure is the same as a Debian archive, i.e., put the files in
debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz and
debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/drivers.tgz
and remember the path to the top of this tree. That is enough to install a
base system, including configuring networking. Then you can do whatever else
you need over the network. The "2_2" refers to version 2.2, i.e., potato. If
you want to upgrade to woody, then you can modify /etc/apt/sources.list and do
the dist-upgrade.
I installed slink like this on my Vaio N505VE over two years ago, with a
borrowed CD-ROM. I had the same issue with only being able to use one floppy,
so I actually installed Red Hat first from a bootable CD-ROM, which worked
fine, then copied the Debian install files to the hard disk and installed it
from there. My notes from then aren't great, and my memory is worse, but I
think I did it as above.
Good luck.
On Mar 21, stephen (stephen@dcode.net) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a sony vaio c1ve and am borrowing a USB floppy drive. I have RH
> 7.2 currently installed and want to install debian. Problem is, I have no
> CDROM drive and no bootable dos partition. Also, because of the USB
> floppy I can only boot from 1 floppy and can't insert any more. I read
> that installs have been done by downloading a rescue image and mounting
> this in /dev somewhere, however, the essential details of how todo this
> are lacking. How can I install from a working rh installation without
> using cdrom or more than 1 floppy ?
>
> any help will be appreciated.
>
> cheers,
> stephen
>
>
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