On Sat, 2001-11-10 at 06:22, Tom Allison wrote: > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > On Fri, 2001-11-09 at 19:34, Tom Allison wrote: > > debootstrap dist /target/dir http://http.us.debian.org/debian > > > > where dist = woody sid potato (not stable unstable ... that didn't work > > for me) > > > > /target/dir is wherever you want it to land and the http (or ftp) site > > your favorite mirror. Works like a charm. > > Do you think that I could do this from a floppy like the > LinuxRouterProject? Or some other linux mini-distro? Or does this have > to be a mini-debian distro? > > Where I get into trouble (I think) is that in the congifiguration > process, there is an option to pull up the network information and set > up the modules. I will already have the modules loaded into RAM since > I'll be accessing the PC via ssh from across the country. > > Right now, my best alternative is to download the base2_2.tgz file and > unzip that all over the hard drive. But I'm having trouble finding out > what I would have to run after that to finish the installation... > > I kind of have to do everything the debian installation is designed to > do, but manually as I won't be accessing a tty anywhere in the process.
I'm sure if you could get debootstrap on the floppy along with wget it should work great. Just create your debian base wherever you want it to go after the system is up. As long as you can partition/mount/format and work with your target hard drives you should be able to get the system going from the floppy. Just be sure to config inside the target system so that it will reboot with a correct apt-sources, module and network configuration. Make sure the target syetem /etc/passwd has a root account and a user account. Chroot into the target system and get ssh installed with sshd enabled through an apt-get update && apt-get install ssh. Repeat for other desired packages before rebooting. Once you get to be able to reboot the system just ssh in and finish config by hand like any other debian system. --mike
