Running debian-installer from the command line?

2006-05-12 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Hi all, I've been scanning all available resources and not found anything, so I'm turning here for help. I'd like to run the Debian installer from a command line. The machine was booted from the network and is running Linux (not necessarily Debian) from a RAM disk, so there's no need for UML,

Re: Running debian-installer from the command line?

2006-05-12 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Wouter Verhelst schrieb: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:01:31AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote: In that case, what you need is not debian-installer; rather, you'll be wanting debootstrap, which allows you to install the required packages to get the base system on a partition. > N

Re: Running debian-installer from the command line?

2006-05-14 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Geert Stappers schrieb: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:54:07PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote: So... what I'm really after is a way to skip all the boot machinery in debian-installer. It should still do everything else (hardware detection, partitioning, base configuration, package install

Re: Running debian-installer from the command line?

2006-05-15 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Geert Stappers schrieb: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:54:07PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote: So... what I'm really after is a way to skip all the boot machinery in debian-installer. It should still do everything else (hardware detection, partitioning, base configuration, package install

Re: Running debian-installer from the command line?

2006-05-15 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Joachim Durchholz schrieb: 5) I'll be back as soon as I have more results :-) Hoo-key. After rummaging around in the /sbin/init script, I found that its main purpose was to set up a few directories, making sure that the root directory is a freshly installed RAM disk with the contents o