Florian Bantner wrote: > Ahoy friendly Debian fellows, > > my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from > an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It > is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he > tells us: Do with the server what you want. And so I want > Debian to take over. The problem: > > 1. No access to neither floppy nor cd-rom > 2. Only service I get is pressing the reset button > 3. The other service is to reinstall base suse- > installation if the server fails to come up. > This will cost me 70 EUR/USD > > What is the best way to get Debian on this box? And how > can I avoid the reboot->fail->reinstall->pay->tray again > trap?
Install debian in a chroot with debootstrap. If you have a spare partition to use as the chroot you can eventually make it the bootalbe partition. -- see shy jo
