Ben Bucksch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > None of my machines have floppy drives and most of them have no > removable media at all, not even CD-ROM drives. Until recently, I > had no CD burner either. So, I had (and still have) the problem of > installing Debian only with the harddisk and my existing OSes.
mrvn@dual:~% apt-cache show debootstrap Package: debootstrap Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 176 Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.1.17 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), wget Filename: pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.1.17_i386.deb Size: 52770 MD5sum: 0d37ce6cd5b70a8372a3539f611fbb30 Description: Bootstrap a basic Debian system debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch, without requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by downloading .deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into. I hope you knew this existed. > Unfortunately, the install guide doesn't describe, how to do that. All > of the many ways to install Debian assume some form of removable media > to boot from (or a bootable network card), even if they are called > "net-only" or "hd-only". You can download the linux.bat, the kernel and rescue disk onto a fixed disk and then run that in DOS. No need for a _removable_ media, a fixed one will do. > After fiddling around long (incl. building boot-floppies), I found an > easy way to achieve that. It is probably obvious for people working on > the boot disks, yet I didn't find it being documented anywhere. > > > So, I wrote a guide myself and put it online. You can find it at > <http://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/debian/crossinst>. If you want, you > can integrate it (or something similar) into the Debian install manual > or just link to that URL. For real cross installing bochs is also nice. I cross installed my i386 dsl router once using bochs on my Alpha (because then I had internet to download the debs meanwhile). Hope you mentioned that too. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
