Re: Linux on HardDrive

["Icebiker" <icebiker@ca.inter.net>]

Hi,

So Curtis gets his Debian system onto a disk and moves it back to his 
laptop.

Won't he have problems with Linux waking up in a different hardware 
environment? Can it autoconfigure itself to find the right networking, 
sound, ACPI drivers and so on? I had the impression that a lot of this was 
done by the Debian installer.

I would have thought that it would be less troublesome to do the install on 
the target machine, using CDs or copying packages.

/icebiker

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronny Aasen" <list@datapart-as.no>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 02:44
Subject: Re: Linux on HardDrive


> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 05:39, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:02 -0800, Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >> I just got hold of an old portable PC, which I want to put linux on.
> > >> Since the networking on this device is poor, I removed the harddrive
> > >> and hooked it up to my own computer. So, my question is what do I need
> > >> to do to the hard drive to get Linux to boot up on it, when I put it
> > >> back in the original computer?
> > >>
> > >> I have formatted the hard disk, but I need to set it up so that it 
> > >> will
> > >> boot. How do I do that?
> > >
> > > Install a bootloader on that hard disk's MBR.  I recommend grub for 
> > > that
> > > task.
> > > --
> > > Paolo Alexis Falcone
> > > pfalcone@gmail.com
> > >
> >
> > But how do I go about creating the MBR and putting the bootloader there?
>
> replace hdc with the real device you have
> grub-install /dev/hdc
>
> you could also
> partition and mount your harddrive under /mnt of you'r own computer
>
> run debootstrap with your choise of debian and your local mirror
> example:
> #debootstrap sarge /mnt/disk http://your.debian.mirror/debian
> tis install a basic working debian
>
> now you could chroot /mnt/disk
> and do the rest of the install there some ideas might be..
>
> apt-setup
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get install kernel-image-your-fav-version
> apt-get install all-the-software-you-want-to-use
>
> good luck
>
>
> --
> Ronny Aasen <list@datapart-as.no>
>
>
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