On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:24 +0200, Shawn Beasley wrote: > michael wrote: > > I was following the instructions on, eg Debian_Admin, to attempt an > > installation of Debian on a Fedora box (that didn't like the netinst > > CD). I have got as far as installing a chroot in /debian_chroot but > > cannot work out the final steps needed to be able to boot into the > > Debian installation. Could some kind soul help me out? Thanks, M > > Boot from UbuntuLive or the like (must have a grub boot loader), mount > your hard drive and copy the initrd.gz vmlinuz to /root. (found in > install.i386) > > Reboot from cd an press escape to get to the grub command line. > > grub> root (hd0,1) <= your hard drive > grub> kernel /root/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 > grub> boot > > Should work, I had the same problem with an older server. The cd booted > everything except the server :(
I think it is possible to do what I want without using a Live CD, eg consider I was trying, remotely, to install Debian! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
