Re: installing debian 10 without a cd and without usb but could use ethernet
Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:29 PM Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I have a machine that currently has linux mint 16.04 on it
> >
> > I assummed that that this was the only partition and that vmlinuz and
> > initrd.gz would go in /boot. How many partitions do you have?
> >
>
> Thanks Brian for your mail.
>
> I didn't mean to imply that linux mint 16.04 was the only OS on the
> machine, or that there was only one partition.
>
> There are 30 partitions, although not all of them have an OS on them; i
> have a partition for users so that when i update the box with a new OS, i
> can have access to all the previous user accounts. That's what i intend to
> do this time as well.
Oh, debootstrap is definitely the way to go, then.
Pick your partition, mkfs.ext4 a filesystem, mount it, and:
debootstrap stable /PATH/TO/MOUNTPOINT http://deb.debian.org/debian/
then you can arrange booting via your existing grub menu or
whatever.
-dsr-
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