Re: using debootstrap to install Debian
> > > OP:
> > > You should chroot in /debian_chroot and run 'aptitude install
> > > linux-image-architecture'.
> > > If debootstrap didn't already, also install grub (or lilo if you prefer
> > > it). Edit fstab (don't forget about /proc) and exit the chroot.
> > > Then, if you have grub in the fedora system, run 'grub-install
> > > --root-directory=/debian_chroot /dev/device' and
> > > edit /debian_chroot/boot/grub/device.map if necessary.
> > > Re-enter the chroot and run update-grub.
> > >
> > >
> > > Then make the bios boot from that device, however you do it, and there
> > > you go.
> >
> > thanks, that sounds str forward - presumably the 'grub-install' will
> > write a new MBR so when I reboot the machine it looks in /debian_chroot
> > (ie I won't see the options from my [Fedora] /boot/grub/menu.lst)?
>
> That's what the --root-directory parameter does.
I'm being doubly (if not triply!) dense today: apologies!
Can I just copy (Fedora's) /etc/fstab, see below, to /debian_chroot?
[root@veri grub]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults
1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults
0 0
proc /proc proc defaults
0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults
0 0
### MKB (Sept 2007): 750Gb disk
#/dev/sdb1 /WinXP ntfs defaults 0 2
/dev/sdb2 /data1 ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 2
### MKB (Sept 2007): nfs4 mount ratty:~michael for user mkb
ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk:/home/michael /home/mkb/ratty nfs hard,intr 0 0
### MKB (Apr 2008): CIFS mount CG-drives
# NB credentials file can only contain username and/or password
//cg-drives.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/mccssmb2 /mnt/CG cifs
uid=1000,gid=1000,file_mode=0600,dir_mode=0700,credentials=/home/mkb/cg_cred.txt 0 0
### MKB (Jul 2008): mount new partition for Debian chroot
/dev/VolGroup00/debian /debian_chroot ext3 defaults
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