Re: debootstrapping via knoppix, and what next?
Wasn't he asking for debootstrap?
http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html [Debian GNU/Linux
Installation with Knoppix and debootstrap]
With debootstrap you can install woody, sarge and even sid.
I've installed all of them with any problem.
But first I recomend a livecd hard disk install and play a bit with
apt. Who says that is not-Debian! If not how have I learnt Debian with
Knoppix?
Debootstrap leaves the base packages, then you install initrd-tools a
kernel ...There's an online manual.
Then you can install the packages you want (you have to be familiar
with apt/dpkg to search the packages you need/want)
But if you're used with LFS there will be no problem.
Did anybody respond your question?
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:02:57 -0600, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> David T-G wrote:
>
> >I also don't want to take my first pass at this on the server, a fragile
> >node in the household. It would be much better to test on a spare box
> >first. That, then, also leads to why a mirror would be useful (I'd save
> >myself *two* frustrating WAN installs).
> >
> >The test machine is a typical PC and I plan to get it installed and then
> >upgrade it to Sarge (which I plan to run on the server mentioned above).
> >I should be able to knoppix-installer it and then, I believe,
> >
> > apt-get distupgrade
> >
> >to fill in all of the missing pieces (how do I specify the software set?)
> >and maybe or maybe not upgrade to Sarge; it's still unclear to me whether
> >or not Knoppix 3.7 is Woody or Sarge in the first place (though I *think*
> >the latter).
> >
> >
>
> Rather than Knoppix, you might look into Kanotix, which is closer to
> "pure Debian", I believe.
>
> Rather than starting with something non-Debian and moving to Debian, I'd
> start with Debian, Sarge, to be exact.
>
> You imply that you're going to "apt-get dist-upgrade" via the net (as I
> can't imagine any other way you can upgrade without having some source
> of files, and you mention no other source). I'd get the netinstaller for
> Sarge (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/, which is something
> like 50 or 100MB, small enough to fit on a jump drive if your machine
> will boot from it, or a mini-CD, or a regular CD, etc), and do the rest
> of the install over the net. You say your DSL connection is lousy, but
> it can't be worse than a dial-up connection, which I've used many times
> to do a full install of Debian, with X and other heavyweight apps. Once
> you have the .debs downloaded (in /var/cache/apt/archives), you can keep
> them and burn them to CD or move them over the LAN to other machines,
> and place them in the ...archives directory there and install them from
> the local repository. I mean, what's the purpose of having DSL if you
> don't use it?
>
> Since this is a server, you probably won't need X and OpenOffice.org and
> KDE and gimp and blah blah blah, so a small install over a lousy LAN
> sounds a whole lot easier than futzing with a non-Debian installer and
> then converting.
>
> Just my 1/6th of a bit's worth (rounded).
>
> --
> Kent
>
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