I'm in the practice of doing a chroot cross install to build a system on a new disk. However, in this case, I'm trying to build a system on my current machine (IBM PC, Intel, Sarge) in order to create a disk to be placed in a new machine, which has an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard, a different video card, and an Athlon 64 processor.
Here are my initial steps. How far can I go on my present machine? 1. Partitioning the disk; initializing the partitions. 2. Run cdebootstrap into the swap partition (don't I have to initialize the swap partition afterwards?) 3. Configure base system. I realize that my fstab will have to be modified when I actually go to boot the disk on the new machine. Perhaps also hostname if it is picked up automatically. 4. Kernel installation. I assume I should install the stock kernel-image-2.6.8-11-686 kernel if I aim at a 32-bit system, rather than the 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic kernel image. 5. Set up grub boot loader. Again, when I move the hard disk over, the menu.lst will have to be modified. 6. Initialize swap partition 7. First boot. Am I correct to assume this hard disk in its present state will boot on either system (after changing hostname and fstab appropriately)? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]