On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:08:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >>> I'm thinking on performing a fresh install on a 2nd partition. I was >>> thinking on using crosshurd (I've used it to install hurd, but never >>> linux), since according to its sid package web page [1], it looks like >>> crosshurd can do it: >>> >> >> Lets look at the why. Why do you want to do it? Debian has debootstrap >> to install to a partition from an existing unix system (IIRC, it only >> uses wget and sh). What will crosshurd give you that either debootstrap >> or just the netinst.iso won't? >> >> Doug. > > I've never used debootstrap. I have used crosshurd. Besides > crosshurd is pretty simple, one just needs to specify the repositories > from where to get the packages, which can be under "unstable" which is > what I want as well (this doesn't mean with debootstrap I can't > achieve the same thing), and then run crosshurd. It's that simple... > > So basically because I've used crosshurd before, and I got used to it. > But if there's no experience with crosshurd, then I'd better go with > something others have tried and works... I'll search the web for > debootstrap to see how it works... >
It looks simple as well... I took a look at: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/426 Hopefully it's that simple, :)... I hope I can call for "unstable" or "sid", :)... Thanks, -- Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
