I am currently running Redhat and have decided to try Debian instead. I wish to install from the hard drive from an existing linux partition and have read the instructions for doing this from http://www.us.debian.org/releases/slink/i386/install but am confuse by one aspect. The instructions state that, "Note that the partition you are installing from should not be the same as the partitions you are installing Debian to (e.g., /, /usr, /lib, and all that)". This is all well and good but how are you able to use that partition as part of the Debian installation. At a guess I would say that Debian only requires certain partitions for its base install and then leaves me to add to the rest including the partition from which I installed. If so, what partition(s) does the base install require?
This question appearred in this list in 1997 but the archives seem to have been truncated at 1998. Jord -- Jordan Howarth CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
