installing debian onto a new partition w/o rebooting
I have a machine thas has been running as a diskless box that mounts / over
nfs. I now have an 800 mb drive to put in it, so I want to use that to
install debian on the machine. Since this computer is also a headless box,
I'd prefer to be able to accomplish this without hooking a monitor up to it,
ie, from a telnet session.
Well, I've installed dpkg_1.4.0.17_i386.nondebbin.tar.gz into the new
partition, which is mounted on /mnt. Next, I tried to install ldso, but I'm
getting this error:
[root@box] />dpkg --root=/mnt -i /var/mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/binary/base/ldso_1.9.2-3.deb
(Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ldso (from .../binary/base/ldso_1.9.2-3.deb) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-installation script: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/binary/base/ldso_1.9.2-3.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/mirror/debian/hamm/hamm/binary/base/ldso_1.9.2-3.deb
Hm, I've never seen this error before... anyone have an idea what it's
talking about? Even better, does anyone have a list of commands you need to
run to install debian onto a new partition like this, or what packages
should be installed in what order, etc?
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see shy jo
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