On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Hi, > > a small bit of advice: If you've never done this before you might be > better of just using the installer. > > It's quite a bit from a chroot to a fully bootable 32bit system and > you probably need many reboots to try&error out all the little > things. So unless you are intrested in doing this and not just the > result just use the installer. > > That aside you can of cause reuse tmp and swap and home. Just make > sure you don't format home in the installer. If you decide to go via > (c)debootstrap then just create the mountpoints, mount the partitions > (--bind) and then run (c)debootstrap and create your fstab and users. > > If you want to share /home the users in both systems must match so > create them in the right order or copy the entries over from one to > the other. The rest is straight forward. > > MfG > Goswin > > PS: Why do you have a /tmp partition an not just a tmpfs (and an > acordingly larger swap)?
Hi, The reason I have /tmp and not tmps is until your message I'd never heard of tmps before. I googled around a bit and tmpfs looks interesting; unfortunately I've already partioned the disk and don't want to reformat it to get a larger swap. One reason I'm interested in not using the installer is because I am concerned about erasing too much when I use the installer. I really don't want to accidentally reformat the disk or make pure64 unbootable. Thanks for the hint about /home and the users, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
