-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Soliman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Cassiano Leal wrote: >>> Tarek Soliman wrote: >>>> An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before >>>> you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. >>> Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do it? I was >>> really eager to try sid, but didn't want to break my etch and have to >>> reinstall everything! >>> >>> Cheers >>> Cassiano >> The first step is to create a new partition for it, then install etch on >> that partition. It will update your grub to give two options for >> booting etch. Pick one of them and then change /etc/apt/sources.list >> and change all occurrences of "etch" to sid, and then do: >> >> apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. You'll then have Sid. >> >> Of course, instead of installing etch over again, you can just copy >> everything to the new partition, but clean installs are easier to deal with. >> >> Once everything is set up, you can choose to boot sid, or change which >> system you are using without rebooting by using the chroot command. See >> man chroot for more information about chroot. >> > > If you have an internet connection that can do a netinstall, > you don't actually need to partition anything, boot, or install. > > debootstrap will dump a debian installation into an empty directory. > > After following the howtos and debian docs on debootstrap I have this to > say: > The best way to debootstrap sid is to debootstrap stable and then chroot > into it and upgrade it to testing then to unstable. > > You can also set up a vt to let you log in to the chroot. > > Also, mount rbind came in handy.
I forgot about debootstrap. Shame on me. I used that once to install Gentoo from a knoppix disk. It a very handy utility if you play around with differnt distros. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+BT5iXBCVWpc5J4RAlQ1AJ4xWGAyL8i2exTGaObyh0FM3O7O1ACeOmy0 6ePeqS0ivA+mlNYp9ZNHvSs= =5a6g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
