* Ross Boylan (RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org)[20040604 09:36]: > I have an installed Debian system, and am interested in making some > more. I'm interested in both new installs and chroots. I realize > these may have somewhat different solutions. > > As for making a new install, I see two options: I can run the debian > installer or deboostrap. > > Are there other options? > > Both the options I know want to pull in debs, but I already have them > on my system. Is there some way to get it to use them? As far as I > can tell, the usual format for a debian archive is different from that > of apt's cache that has the debs on my system. If you'll be running multiple debian machines at a site, I highly recommend apt-proxy. Configure one machine as an apt proxy and point all of the other machines' sources.list at it. Then you only download each package once, on demand (rather than creating a whole local mirror) and it's all very transparent. As for your bootstrapping issue, take a look inside debootstrap; it's a shell script. It already includes an option to unpack a tarball instead of downloading packages via http. You could also set up your own web server and edit the MIRRORS line in debootstrap to point at it. good times, Vineet
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