Re: Quick questions
arthur@linuxbox.nu wrote:
>
> I was wondering, could you get a base Debian system installed by
> downloading from <debian>/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/:
>
> base2_2.tgz
> images-1.44/rescue.bin
> images-1.44/root.bin
>
> Then install the rest of the system when I get networking configured?
>
I tried this just last night, and it worked. I mounted the new
partition on /mnt, chroot'ed to that point, ran lilo, and it worked. I
was running a fully-funcional debian system at the time; don't know how
this affected my success. YMMV.
> Also, how do you rebuild the package listings? Is there a quick way of
> rebuilding Packages and Packages.gz?
$ apt-get update
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