> > is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having
> Its puzzling: You can install Debian from MS DOS very easily, but > there seems to be no easy way to do this directly from an existing > Linux system. We have a Mailserver without a floppy or CD > drive. Someone mailed me, I could install the base system myself on > the empy partition, and do some more fiddling around. I prefered to > install a floppy drive from an older computer into the server. This > way I have also some redundancy in booting: If I fondle with my > harddisk too much, I can still try to save i using the rescue disk. > Still a easy way to install directly from an existing Linux partition > would be neat. I'm not sure what the problem is here. dpkg has a --root= option that allows installation to an altenate root. I assume that you could either use this to install all the packages you need for emergency. I suppose you'd also have to run MAKEDEV in the new /dev, but i'm not sure. --
