Install Debian from within another distro

[Tyler Littlefield]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

forgot /etc/fstab, I've not had issues with locales until after I
booted, nor have I had keyboard issues (your milage may very)

On 10/11/2010 7:19 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:12:22PM EST, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> 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
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 


- -- 
Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMs8glAAoJELDPyrppriJPrOkIAMtFtq1UyBDdmgBSoeLFbBnS
UAEhAUXKY8B+8DEcuH+aCMOu4qZ6GRX0teWisLcWBz6OAst79eb7J/h+TnMjbODq
6aN0qiDPdJ20PYbK7rC0SvthRDA+Tz6Kc9pDmjFX5dkWT0b2FwZ6E1YD6JrNUF9h
6dAdbIqmhP3pwWFlt8SE8OeANL5Gku+uw8EbBZCV2jnbhQpzQ8aXA37VzhvOxM9z
g0XfF4e5gBLeEY1puPvklPD1zRk1g8wgPFwp9DFzFJS0aFWBYjhWoY4yF0sX7jsC
OKDsnp65uuvZlfLBiO0lD0GhKaFFhyCYrmyp1HkFsqcZd7A9NXUXfckrECQObho=
=aiss
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----