on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Stathy G. Touloumis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new user to Debian and wanted to know if there is some utility for > performing the installation of Debian. > > The situation that I am in is that I want to install Debian on a Cobalt > RaQ. I needed to netboot "bootp" the box and NFS mount a directory > structure. Now I am able to log into the system and wish to run some type > of installation utility that can perform all the necessary steps > (format/partition hard drive, package installation, etc.). > > Any help would be much appreciated.
Hmm...I don't recall what the RaQ's hardware config are -- CPU and/or removeable storage equipment, and believe this varies with versions of the device. IIRC older systems were MIPS, newer are x86 hardware, and there may be a CDROM port. I've played with some Cobalt hardware, but never actually got to putting a real OS on it. If there's a serial port, you should be able to set up a getty on this and directly access the system using minicom. You mentioned dbootstrap in a later post. There's a variant of this called debbootstrap which functions similarly. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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