On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:51:29PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I want to install on a local drive, without rebooting with boot floppies > (I want to keep the system running, while installing to a new drive). I > can use debootstrap to set up a chroot, but how can I find out what > other things I need to do, which would have been done by boot-floppies, > but won't be now? I have a good idea of all the ... "important" stuff, > but am afraid I will miss something.
I installed a second copy of debian on a second partition using this method, and the only trick that I think I had to do was to copy start-stop-daemon.REAL (in either /sbin or /usr/sbin) to start-stop-daemon, as debootstrap disables start-stop-daemon by replacing it with a dummy. Other than that, installing using debootstrap worked beautifully for me. On the other hand, it could be that there is some other problem lurking beneath the surface... -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
