Steve Grabowsku wrote:
How are you doing this? Are you booting from the network via PXE/bootp/something_similar, and RH is the boot OS? Do you have the ability to change the OS from RH to Debian on the network boot server?I have a machine that I want to install Debian on, as well as other Linux/BSD systems. I have no floppy or CD drive. I have no other x86 machines. I do not have Windows. Using the network, I am able to install Red Hat 9 on it. I want to use this to install and boot from the other OSes.
I have the suspicion that with the use of GRUB and/or LILO, I can configure things the way I want, but I am not entirely sure of this. I'd install the Debian kernel somewhere, maybe download some crucial packages to some mount, and boot into the minimal Debian and then use some neet packaging system to get the rest. But I'm not sure of the details. Could someone point out where I should go to find them? And, just so I'm starting things out properly, how should I have the Red Hat install program format my disk?
How big is your hard drive? Are you planning on keeping a dual-boot setup?I've never played with RH, but my first thought would be to read the "Installating Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System" section of the Installation Manual (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade).
-- Kent