Hi,
So Curtis gets his Debian system onto a disk and moves it back to his laptop.
Won't he have problems with Linux waking up in a different hardware environment? Can it autoconfigure itself to find the right networking, sound, ACPI drivers and so on? I had the impression that a lot of this was done by the Debian installer.
I would have thought that it would be less troublesome to do the install on the target machine, using CDs or copying packages.
/icebiker
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronny Aasen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 02:44
Subject: Re: Linux on HardDrive
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 05:39, Curtis Vaughan wrote:> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:02 -0800, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> I just got hold of an old portable PC, which I want to put linux on.
>> Since the networking on this device is poor, I removed the harddrive
>> and hooked it up to my own computer. So, my question is what do I need
>> to do to the hard drive to get Linux to boot up on it, when I put it
>> back in the original computer?
>>
>> I have formatted the hard disk, but I need to set it up so that it >> will
>> boot. How do I do that?
>
> Install a bootloader on that hard disk's MBR. I recommend grub for > that
> task.
> --
> Paolo Alexis Falcone
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
But how do I go about creating the MBR and putting the bootloader there?
replace hdc with the real device you have grub-install /dev/hdc
you could also partition and mount your harddrive under /mnt of you'r own computer
run debootstrap with your choise of debian and your local mirror example: #debootstrap sarge /mnt/disk http://your.debian.mirror/debian tis install a basic working debian
now you could chroot /mnt/disk and do the rest of the install there some ideas might be..
apt-setup apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install kernel-image-your-fav-version apt-get install all-the-software-you-want-to-use
good luck
-- Ronny Aasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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