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Re: using apt to install system to another partition



On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 08:01:45AM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Chris Tillman wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 03:49:41PM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to make a backup debian installation on another disk or partition.
> >
> > Steps were recently added in the install manual which would work for this
> > using debootstrap. See
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html/#s-linux-upgrade

Sorry, I got slash happy with my URL. Corrected:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade

> >
> This link did not work for me but I found debootstrap and managed to get
> it working on my non-debian system.  It seems to have installed the base
> Debian system OK on my spare ext2 partition.  There is no kernel installed
> though.  How do I install a kernel package do I can boot the partition?

(see link).

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