I have bought a new hard drive and I want to install Debian on it. It should be possible, to mount the new drive in a subdirectory of my existing root partition, and do a new install on this subdirectory. Unfortunately the installation manual doesn't give this as an option.
Of course, I could create rescue disk, root disk etc, then reboot from these and install the new HD that way, but it seems a clumsy way of doing it given I have a working Debian installation already. Has anyone done what I am suggesting should be able to be done? Can anyone point me to a HOWTO or something? Thanks, Mark. P.S. I'm currently not subscribed to debian-user (with my new disk I should have enough space to resubscribe!) so could people please cc a copy of any replies directly to me. Thanks. -- _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"