Re: installing on local hard drive, without boot floppies ?
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:51:29PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
>
> I want to install on a local drive, without rebooting with boot floppies
> (I want to keep the system running, while installing to a new drive). I
> can use debootstrap to set up a chroot, but how can I find out what
> other things I need to do, which would have been done by boot-floppies,
> but won't be now? I have a good idea of all the ... "important" stuff,
> but am afraid I will miss something.
I installed a second copy of debian on a second partition using this
method, and the only trick that I think I had to do was to copy
start-stop-daemon.REAL (in either /sbin or /usr/sbin) to start-stop-daemon,
as debootstrap disables start-stop-daemon by replacing it with a dummy.
Other than that, installing using debootstrap worked beautifully for me.
On the other hand, it could be that there is some other problem lurking
beneath the surface...
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David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
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