Debian instal from HDD
ArteQ
I have a running Slackware box on hda1. I'd like to install Debian on my
second disk (hdc1). I wonder if it is possible to install it without any
flopies or CD-ROM? The problem is I have only LAN on my linux box, and it's
quite hard for me to connect some CD or FDD drive :-(
I read
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-rescue-boot.pl.html#s-install-
drive but it seems I need FDD anyway...
Anyone?
PS Sory if it's a lame question, I'm new to Debian :-)
ArteQ
hugo vanwoerkom
"ArteQ" <art...@go2.pl> wrote in message news:<xxQy8.34940$QJ3.3...@news.chello.at>...
ArteQ
contortions?
Should I buy a floppy drive just to use it *once* when installing linux? I
don't think so...
ArteQ
Jonathan Addleman
It is possible (at it was last time I tried it.. slink, I think...)
Just copy all the "disks" stuff onto the hard drive. Boot up with
loadlin.exe, and away you go...
If you just make a copy of the boot dir from the CD, there's even a
batch file to automate it.
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Jonathan Addleman
Hendrik Sattler
> My, ArteQ, what a big post you have!
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I have a running Slackware box on hda1. I'd like to install Debian on my
> It is possible (at it was last time I tried it.. slink, I think...)
>
> Just copy all the "disks" stuff onto the hard drive. Boot up with
> loadlin.exe, and away you go...
>
> If you just make a copy of the boot dir from the CD, there's even a
> batch file to automate it.
Well, you missed the point. He wants to install a linux distribution
(debian) from a running linux distribution (slackware), not DOS.
And loadlin.exe is not going to succeed, I guess.
But actually, he could try to mount the root floppy disk and run the
installer from there.
HS
Jonathan Addleman
> Jonathan Addleman wrote:
>
>> My, ArteQ, what a big post you have!
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> I have a running Slackware box on hda1. I'd like to install Debian on my
>> It is possible (at it was last time I tried it.. slink, I think...)
>>
>> Just copy all the "disks" stuff onto the hard drive. Boot up with
>> loadlin.exe, and away you go...
>>
>> If you just make a copy of the boot dir from the CD, there's even a
>> batch file to automate it.
>
> Well, you missed the point. He wants to install a linux distribution
> (debian) from a running linux distribution (slackware), not DOS.
> And loadlin.exe is not going to succeed, I guess.
Wooops. I missed the point by a very substantial margin...
There are bootstrapping packages for doing that though, aren't there?
It's not something I've ever tried... Booting from a CD has spoiled me
horribly! :)
> But actually, he could try to mount the root floppy disk and run the
> installer from there.
Worth a try... I've never poked around with the boot disks, really... I
was always so relieved to be back with a full shell and vim instead of
nvi, that I never wanted to go back. :)
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Jonathan Addleman
ArteQ
> installer from there.
That's interesting... But doesn't the installer try to boot linux kernel at
startup? Two kernels working at a time... (my slackware & the mounted one).
I'll try this anyway :-)
ArteQ
Jonathan Addleman
Mounting the disk won't load the kernel!
In any case, the "root" disk doesn't have the kernel on it - it just has
the root filesystem and the installer that the "boot" disk loads into
a ramdisk.
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Jonathan Addleman
hugo vanwoerkom
Jonathan Addleman <jo...@redowl.dyndns.org> wrote in message news:<slrnacqvq...@squid.home>...
ArteQ
> installer from there.
Maybe that's lame.... but how do I mount this images? They're in RAW and I
don't see my 'mount' knows what to do with them... I've even tried to conver
this .bin (RAW) into .iso but it doesn't help :-(
ArteQ
Jonathan Addleman
hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> Are u going to tell us how it worked? Be interesting!
I never actually tried this before, but just to see, I downloaded
root.bin, gunzipped it, and mounted it with 'mount root bla/ -o loop'
Tada!
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Jonathan Addleman