Re: [User-mode-linux-user] Any Debian experts out there?

[Jon B. <ben...@di...>]

cant you just install it somewhere and then use dd to make an image of
that disk ??


ion++


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:

> I've a whole bunch of CDs with various distros on them and I'm planning on 
> putting together a bunch of filesystems from them so that people can play with 
> a new distro by downloading the appropriate filesystem.
> 
> Right now, I'm playing with Debian.  What I need is some procedure for 
> starting with a CD and an empty filesystem and ending with a filesystem that 
> will boot a reasonable system.
> 
> I've got the Debian install tools in another filesystem (the Debian filesystem 
> that I distribute - my outer system has RH on it).  In order to get dpkg to 
> even think about working in the empty filesystem, I had to do a bunch of 
> mkdirs and touch a bunch of files that it expected to already be there.
> 
> After that, it kind of went through some motions and gave me more errors which 
> I didn't understand.
> 
> So, what's the official way to do this?  There's probably some kind of 
> bootstrap environment that the install uses to get dpkg up and running.
> 
> And if anyone has the equivalent answers for other distros, I've got the 
> following:
> 	Debian 2.1
> 	Slackware 7.0
> 	Stampede Linux Edition 3
> 	Linux-Mandrake 7.0
> 	Caldera OpenLinux 2.3
> 	Red Hat 6.1
> 	Suse 6.3
> 
> 				Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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