On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:17:03PM -0800, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2001 07:40 pm, Chris Tillman wrote: > > <SNIP!>
All very frustrating. Perhaps, if you're serious about installing without the installer, you could dig into archives.debian.org. It's just, well I'm a little familiar with the workings of the installer, and I'm just familiar enough to know it really takes care of a LOT of stuff under the hood. One guy that knows something about doing it the 'hard' way would be Andrew Korn (lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/debian-boot-200112/msg00196.html). In fact, that's another interesting science project you could do, is dive into cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies. The one thing you can say about Debian, with complete source code, is that if you want to find out how something's done, "it's in there". Basically, the installer provides a partitioning utility (you probably don't need that), a very basic Linux system (you could probably use your RH system instead), and it sets up the new system in /target using a chroot as needed. The 3rd part is really the key for you, but it's much easier said than done, I fear. Do you have any external drives? You could install using another computer on that drive and then hook up the drive. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
