Re: woody base system
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:02:53AM +0200, Birzan George Cristian wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:22:11PM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > so then, how do i install a minimal system to a dir for a
> > diskless terminal to use?
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade
> That part of the isntall guide should be exactly what you need, minus
> the boot loader and such. (Though, I have no doubt you'll be able to
> figure it out on your own :-))
thanks! may take some coffee though ;-)
> Short version:
> You should (and I say should because I never really bothered to see how
> it's really done) use debootstrap to install (this is, I think, what
> you were looking for in the first place, no?):
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/base-images-current/basedebs.tar
that is the file i was looking for, thanks. The thing that confuses me
is that if debootstrap is the officially way to install debian and that
uses the above file, why isnt the above file on CD1?
hugh
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