Hi, When I installed debian on my amd64 I didn't expect things to work very well, and so I made an extra 10g partition in which I could install a 32 bit kernel to use while I got pure64 working. Surprisingly, the pure64 install went very easily and everything works (more things work than did on a previous i386 install). But now I still have this unused extra 10g partition, and I figure I might as well install debian on it; that way I can compare the 32bit vs the 64bit performance.
My current partition scheme (from /etc/fstab) is: /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda6 /opt ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda10 /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda9 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda8 /usr/local ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda7 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0 Since /dev/sda3 is the unused partition (formatted ext3), I would like to install debian on it. I was hoping to use the same swap, tmp, and home partition. I was about to try to use the debian installer, when I came across 3.7 Installing Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html . If I understand that document correctly, I can avoid the install cd and simply do the following: $ mkdir /mnt/debinst $ mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/debinst The manual then says to $ mkswap /dev/hda5 $ sync; sync; sync $ swapon /dev/hda5 I was wondering if I could avoid doing something similar (with sda5 replacing hda5) because I already have swap mounted at /dev/sda5. I would then continue with: $ /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch i386 woody \ /mnt/debinst http://http.us.debian.org/debian $ chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash # vi /etc/fstab # file system mount point type options dump pass proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user,exec 0 0 /dev/sda10 /tmp ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 2 /dev/sda4 /home ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 2 I am here trying to use the same swap, tmp, and home partition. If there is any problem with that, please let me know. $ mount -a # dpkg-reconfigure console-data # editor /etc/network/interfaces # editor /etc/resolv.conf # echo DebianHostName > /etc/hostname # /usr/sbin/base-config # apt-get install locales # dpkg-reconfigure locales # apt-get install kernel-image-2.X.X-arch-etc Then I would need to setup grub to give me the option to boot into it at boot time. I have no idea how to do this, since all the entries in my /boot/grub/menxxxx refer to /boot/vmlinuz.... Does this look like it will work? Any suggestions or warnings that will save me from disaster are appreciated. Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]