Dan Hitt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:29 PM Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > I have a machine that currently has linux mint 16.04 on it > > > > I assummed that that this was the only partition and that vmlinuz and > > initrd.gz would go in /boot. How many partitions do you have? > > > > Thanks Brian for your mail. > > I didn't mean to imply that linux mint 16.04 was the only OS on the > machine, or that there was only one partition. > > There are 30 partitions, although not all of them have an OS on them; i > have a partition for users so that when i update the box with a new OS, i > can have access to all the previous user accounts. That's what i intend to > do this time as well.
Oh, debootstrap is definitely the way to go, then. Pick your partition, mkfs.ext4 a filesystem, mount it, and: debootstrap stable /PATH/TO/MOUNTPOINT http://deb.debian.org/debian/ then you can arrange booting via your existing grub menu or whatever. -dsr-
