On 01/31/2009 02:57 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
pierpaolo:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
...you can use debootstrap to reinstall without using the installer and
without repartitioning your hard drive. You just need a swap partition
large enough to hold the base system.
How is this supposed to work, please?
The basic idea:
swapoff /dev/sdX
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdX
mount /dev/sdX /somewhere
debootstrap /somewhere
chroot /somewhere
grub-install /dev/sdX
exit
modify menu.lst to use /dev/sdX as root device
reboot
copy necessary system configuration from old-root-device
mkfs.ext3 /dev/old-root-device
clone new system to old-root-device
cp?
reboot
mkswap /dev/sdX
swapon /dev/sdX
There are moe specific HOWTOs about the process on the net.
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