On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:02:26PM -0800, Terry Milnes wrote: > Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I want? you can do it, but you'll probably spend just as much time working out dependencies and massaging things into place. also, knx-hdinstall doesn't deal well with small root partitions iirc. i've done something similar, but in a more "I know what the hell i'm doing" manner: (from a knoppix boot up) # fdisk /dev/hda # mkdir /target (mount all the hard drive partitions into /target, /target/usr, etc...) # debootstrap sid /target (you can do woody instead of sid if you want stable) # chroot /target dpkg -a --configure # chroot /target # apt-get install stuff (don't forget to include a linux kernel and run lilo) sean
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