On 01/31/2009 02:57 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
pierpaolo:On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de> wrote:...you can use debootstrap to reinstall without using the installer and without repartitioning your hard drive. You just need a swap partition large enough to hold the base system.How is this supposed to work, please?The basic idea: swapoff /dev/sdX mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdX mount /dev/sdX /somewhere debootstrap /somewhere chroot /somewhere grub-install /dev/sdX exit modify menu.lst to use /dev/sdX as root device reboot copy necessary system configuration from old-root-device mkfs.ext3 /dev/old-root-device clone new system to old-root-device
cp?
reboot mkswap /dev/sdX swapon /dev/sdX There are moe specific HOWTOs about the process on the net.
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