Re: Apt-install base system to non-root drive?
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:30:40PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> Hi, I'm off to cruise through the docs, but some quick help on this
> would be appreciated. I have a booting, network-capable system, but
> it's not running well. I'd like to install a clean copy of Sarge to a
> spare hard drive. The Sarge net-install CD was a total failure (see
> rant below, or ignore it). So is there any easy way to run the base
> install to a local partition? Once it's there I can boot it with grub
> and I'll be set. The Apt-HOWTO doesn't seem to cover this. Can dpkg or
> dselect do it?
Try using debootstrap.
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Seneca
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