Re: How to manually install minimal system
Kent West <westk@heir.acu.edu> writes:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 wtopa@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Subject: Re: How to manually install minimal system
> > Date: Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:31:22PM +0000
> >
[..]
>
> Actually, I had decided to use Slackware for this project even before
> posting my original message. Problem is, I still haven't been able to find
> the info I need to do the installation manually. Everything I've found
> walks me through the manual fdisk and mke2fs steps, but then tells me to
> run setup, which of course, I don't want to do.
>
> I was hesitant to post this to a debian list (I still plan to use debian
> everywhere else), but I didn't know where else to turn since my web
> searches weren't doing me much good.
>
> So, do you perhaps know of a good source of info for walking me through a
> manual install of slackware? A previous answer to this post gave me some
> good info, but I was hoping more for a specific, step-by-step tutorial,
> perhaps akin to Our Man Pann's walk-through for normal installs.
Well, there are various ways to start a linux system.
Take a look at the boot disk howto (this is a task which normally
involves building a linux system from scratch) and on the loopback
root mini howto (sorry, at the moment I can't access my bookmarks ---
please contact me via private mail, if you can't find information on
this topic, due to me not remembering the right name).
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Jens.Ritter@weh.rwth-aachen.de grimaldi@debian.org
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Do what comes naturally. Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum.
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