Re: installing debian from a running linux system
> > is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having
> Its puzzling: You can install Debian from MS DOS very easily, but
> there seems to be no easy way to do this directly from an existing
> Linux system. We have a Mailserver without a floppy or CD
> drive. Someone mailed me, I could install the base system myself on
> the empy partition, and do some more fiddling around. I prefered to
> install a floppy drive from an older computer into the server. This
> way I have also some redundancy in booting: If I fondle with my
> harddisk too much, I can still try to save i using the rescue disk.
> Still a easy way to install directly from an existing Linux partition
> would be neat.
I'm not sure what the problem is here. dpkg has a --root= option that
allows installation to an altenate root. I assume that you could
either use this to install all the packages you need for emergency.
I suppose you'd also have to run MAKEDEV in the new /dev, but i'm not
sure.
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