The potato installation manual does not cover a procedure that would be useful: viz., the installation of potato from another Linux installation. It ought to be possible to put the Debian kernel and base system (etc.) on a partition, reinstall lilo so that it sees the new kernel, and reboot into the installation program. The manual does cover the use of a Linux partition as the source for the base system and drivers, but assumes that a floppy will be used for booting. (BTW: as it is now, section 6 of the installation manual is quite confusing to the newbie when it talks about different methods of installing and booting. The two ought to be more clearly separated. It is possible to install (in part) from a FAT partition and to boot from DOS; and it is possible (in part) to install from an ext2 partition and to boot from a Linux floppy; but it is not possible to install from an ext2 partition and to boot from Linux running off a partition. My suggestion is that it be made possible to install *fully* from an ext2 partition, so that the installed Debian partition can itself be booted.) Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
