Wasn't he asking for debootstrap? http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html [Debian GNU/Linux Installation with Knoppix and debootstrap]
With debootstrap you can install woody, sarge and even sid. I've installed all of them with any problem. But first I recomend a livecd hard disk install and play a bit with apt. Who says that is not-Debian! If not how have I learnt Debian with Knoppix? Debootstrap leaves the base packages, then you install initrd-tools a kernel ...There's an online manual. Then you can install the packages you want (you have to be familiar with apt/dpkg to search the packages you need/want) But if you're used with LFS there will be no problem. Did anybody respond your question? On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:02:57 -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David T-G wrote: > > >I also don't want to take my first pass at this on the server, a fragile > >node in the household. It would be much better to test on a spare box > >first. That, then, also leads to why a mirror would be useful (I'd save > >myself *two* frustrating WAN installs). > > > >The test machine is a typical PC and I plan to get it installed and then > >upgrade it to Sarge (which I plan to run on the server mentioned above). > >I should be able to knoppix-installer it and then, I believe, > > > > apt-get distupgrade > > > >to fill in all of the missing pieces (how do I specify the software set?) > >and maybe or maybe not upgrade to Sarge; it's still unclear to me whether > >or not Knoppix 3.7 is Woody or Sarge in the first place (though I *think* > >the latter). > > > > > > Rather than Knoppix, you might look into Kanotix, which is closer to > "pure Debian", I believe. > > Rather than starting with something non-Debian and moving to Debian, I'd > start with Debian, Sarge, to be exact. > > You imply that you're going to "apt-get dist-upgrade" via the net (as I > can't imagine any other way you can upgrade without having some source > of files, and you mention no other source). I'd get the netinstaller for > Sarge (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/, which is something > like 50 or 100MB, small enough to fit on a jump drive if your machine > will boot from it, or a mini-CD, or a regular CD, etc), and do the rest > of the install over the net. You say your DSL connection is lousy, but > it can't be worse than a dial-up connection, which I've used many times > to do a full install of Debian, with X and other heavyweight apps. Once > you have the .debs downloaded (in /var/cache/apt/archives), you can keep > them and burn them to CD or move them over the LAN to other machines, > and place them in the ...archives directory there and install them from > the local repository. I mean, what's the purpose of having DSL if you > don't use it? > > Since this is a server, you probably won't need X and OpenOffice.org and > KDE and gimp and blah blah blah, so a small install over a lousy LAN > sounds a whole lot easier than futzing with a non-Debian installer and > then converting. > > Just my 1/6th of a bit's worth (rounded). > > -- > Kent > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
