Am 2008-02-01 09:26:59, schrieb Dan H.:
> Yes, I figured that. But it ain't easy. There's simply no way I can think of
> to make grub install itself on that disk. I have no idea which (hdx,y) to
> use. /dev/sda is flatly refused as it is not a "BIOS" disk. Why can't grub
> simply install itself on
Purrs like a kitten now. But I did have to start from scratch using a
netinstall CD.
Thanks everybody!
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:26:59AM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
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> Yes, I figured that. But it ain't easy. There's simply no way I can think of
> to make grub install itself on that disk. I have no idea which (hdx,y) to
> use. /dev/sda is flatly refused as it is not a "BIOS" disk. Why can't grub
> si
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:23:26PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> What is the output of 'mount'?
>
> Maybe you have the option 'user' set for that filesystem in fstab. This
> also implies 'noexec' (as well as 'nodev' and 'nosuid').
Yes, that was it. I once had the disk manually mounted, the other
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:59:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> yes, that's normal (at least in my experience, it's been a while since
> I used it). There are no locales set up on the new system yet...
Yes, it went away after dpkg-reconfigure locales.
> > to upgrade many packages -- I me
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:20PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> So to fix that I wanted to chroot into my mounted USB disk again but was
> rebuffed:
>
> chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Permission denied
>
> WTF? There were no changes to that disk since chroot worked just before the
> reboot. I
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:20PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
>
> > like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable
> > external USB hard disk
>
> Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable
> external USB hard disk
Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on
that mobile disk. I chrooted to that disk (using the procedure from
Hello,
like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable
external USB hard disk to use with a (normally) Windows laptop. Of course I
could just pop in a netinstall CD on the target computer and do the normal
installation
process. However, I have a couple of full-featured Debian
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