Re: configuring a base system
During installation you get the question from where you want to install
the base system, I guess you should choose harddisk and select /dev/hdc1
(or in case you've already mounted /dev/hdc1, choose already mounted
filesystem and point to the place you've mounted it).
Ron
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Phil Howard wrote:
> I was referred to the base system files in a file called base2_2.tgz.
> I loaded them onto a partition and tried booting, but it wants me to
> configure them ahead of time. What needs to be done to do that.
>
> This machine has no floppy drive or cdrom drive. It does have a
> rescue partition on /dev/hda1 and the target partition is /dev/hda2.
> I'll redo it later with multiple partitions but for now I'm getting
> my feet wet with Debian and checking for actual sizes an stuff to do
> more planning. Anyway, /dev/hdc1 has a mirror of the potato release
> from the rsync site, and my plan was to point apt there to finish
> the install. The install instructions indicated a disk to disk
> install could be done, but didn't say how. So how?
>
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