On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:06:54AM +0000, Hugh Saunders wrote: > 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? Hmmm...I don't think it actually does use that file, generally. Well, not by default. I'd wager that's the file involved if you decide to install the base system via disks; if you use the network or CDs, then apt just pulls the individual debs over the network/from the disk and installs directly from these. I think it changed so that the installer would Just Work when minor revisions were made to the stable release. Also, another quick guide for what I think you're trying to do is this: http://people.debian.org/~walters/chroot.html -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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