On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 02:26:24PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Bob Holtzman wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:10:23PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very > >>customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate > >>tool. I finding that it will evidently give me not only the fine > >>control and minimal footprint desired, but it leads me to explore > >>areas of Debian that I know less about than I thought. > >> > >>My question -- Does anyone know of a detailed (newbie oriented) > >>writeup on using debootstrap to install a bootable Debian to a > >>second partition of a drive already containing a complete default > >>install? > > > >I may be wrong, but that sounds like a good way to drive grub crazy > >unless the second installation is renamed. > > Why should Grub care any more/less than when you have multiple > instances of the identical release installed having used the > standard Debian Installer DVD and choosing manual partitioning? I've > had as many as six instances of Debian 6.0.5 installed to as many > partitions without causing Grub any problems.
1. why? 2.that's a new one on me. I stand corrected. Remember, I said "I may be wrong". Looks like I was. -- Bob Holtzman Giant intergalactic brain-sucking hyperbacteria came to Earth to rape our women and create a race of mindless zombies. Look! It's working! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150222214940.ga13...@cox.net
