On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 10:02:40PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > Is it possible to run the Debian installation program on a workstation
> > which runs Linux?
> >
> > Is it possible to simply mount whatever floppy image I need off
> > /dev/fd0 and run the installation program?
> > If so, what is the program's name?
> >
> you may try a chroot-ed environment. man chroot
While this is fine for building up a system once the base image has been
created, I believe you'll find it easiest to install the base by booting
the system.
Of course, you could install base to another box and walk it over (tar,
cpio, foo).
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