dpkg instead of dselect - how?
It is said that we can bypass dselect and the boot disks completely
and install a Debian system using only dpkg and its friends, but I
couldn't find any documentation on this anywhere... Can anyone give me
some hints/links on this? I'm trying to learn it the hard way, by
reading the sources and doing some experiments (which include trying
to patch dselect to make it report all its calls to dpkg), but I feel
I may be missing something obvious...
I'm using Debian 1.3.1, I have three bootable partitions (two Debian,
one RedHat 4.2 -- I tried 5.1, but it had some pathetic bugs; that was
the reason I decided to change to Debian), and other partitions with
/home and other big things, including a copy of the Debian-1.3.1 CD,
as my CD-ROM drive is very slow (2x).
Any hint is very welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Eduardo Ochs
edrx@mat.puc-rio.br
edrx@inx.com.br
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