Install Debian from within another distro

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:12:22PM EST, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
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> You can use debootstrap from any distro or grml comes built with it,
> just boot to grml, and your set.
> Make your directory to mount.
> Make your partitions
> mount the partitions
> mount --bind /dev dir/dev
> mount--bind /proc dir/proc
> debootstrap lenny dir
> chroot dir /bin/bash (Ithink that is the right order)
> install your kernel and grub, set root password with passwd root, set up
> /etc/network/interfaces.
> you can also grab speakup, and install that. Just make sure you change
> the KERNELDIR from the uname -r to the actual directory that it points
> to, because uname-r will return the GRML running kernel.

You also need to set up /etc/hosts, /etc/fstab, install/configure locales and configure your keyboard layout. There is likely more that I can't think of at the moment...

Luke