sean finney wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:56:05AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > (from a knoppix boot up) > > > # fdisk /dev/hda > > > # mkdir /target > > > (mount all the hard drive partitions into /target, /target/usr, etc...) > > > # debootstrap sid /target > > > (you can do woody instead of sid if you want stable) > > > # chroot /target dpkg -a --configure > > > # chroot /target > > > # apt-get install stuff > > > (don't forget to include a linux kernel and run lilo) > > > > What is the advantage of doing it this way from Knoppix rather than just > > booting from a Debian install CD? Is it just that you can set up a sid > > system directly, without having to install stable or testing first? > > it autoconfigures itself, you can sit on a kde desktop, listen to your > favorite ogg vorbis collection over an smbmount (or streaming from the > net), and play a few rounds of frozen-bubble while you wait :)
I must be failing to understand something here. Knoppix will certainly autoconfigure itself when it boots off the CD, but I don't see anything that causes that configuration to be remembered for later when you boot your new Debian installation directly from the hard disk. Nor do I see anything that puts the Knoppix autoconfiguration into your hard disk installation. What I see is that you booted Knoppix, partitioned your hard disk, mounted the partitions, set up a default base unstable system with debootstrap in a chroot, ran dpkg in the chroot to configure that base system (which doesn't benefit from what Knoppix knows about the hardware, does it?), then used apt-get in the chroot to add more Debian unstable packages to it. And you added a kernel and made the system bootable. Does your "include a kernel" mean copy Knoppix's kernel over and build a modules.conf based on the set of modules Knoppix decided to load? If so, then I'd say you glossed over a critical detail. Craig
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