Hi, "debootstrap" is your friend.
Karsten Self had a nice post on how to do it recently within a week). Go check out web interface or just download debootstrap in woody :) Cheers Osamu On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:49:54PM +0200, Jesper Fruergaard Andersen wrote: > I would like to make a new Debian install in a directory which e.g. could be > a new HD. I have noticed that dpkg has the option --root which kind of makes > this possible. There just needs to be a base Debian in that dir for it to > work. Any idea on how to get that base Debian installed in that dir? Doing it dpkg is possible but using APT through debootstrap is much easy. Osamu -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D . See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ Project at: http://qref.sf.net . I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
