On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 01:37:09PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > you may try a chroot-ed environment. man chroot > > While this is fine for building up a system once the base image has been > created, I believe you'll find it easiest to install the base by booting > the system.
How about downloading base2_1.tgz (or base2_2.tgz if you want to go straight to frozen) and untarring that into the new partition before chrooting into it? The whole process might look something like this: 1. Create the new partitions. 2. mke2fs them. 3. Mount them in the proper structure (e.g. the new / on /mnt/wherever, then the new /usr on /mnt/wherever/usr, and so on). 4. cd /mnt/wherever 5. tar -xvvzf /path/to/base2_1.tgz 6. cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/ cp /etc/hosts etc/ echo "newhostname" > etc/hostname 7. chroot . 8. Mount proc, devpts, and whatever else if necessary. 9. Edit sources.list and apt-get to your heart's content (: -- finger for GPG public key.
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