Sorry Ralph, a bit late to this thread. :) On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Noll, Ralph wrote:
> Can I or can I NOT bring up the marist version and > Install Debian????? If you want to use the Marist build as a "starter system" for the Debian install, the answer is yes. Look for debootstrap -- it allows you to install a Debian system into a new set of disks mounted at an arbitrary mount point. It does not matter what distro you currently have installed. A quick Google came up with http://www.inittab.de/manuals/debootstrap.html (this describes using a Knoppix CD and debootstrap to install Debian on a PC, but it's an example of how distro-agnostic debootstrap is). You cannot (should not) install over the top of your existing Marist, but on your MP2k3 it would just be a matter of defining new emulated devices for your new Debian system and mounting them up. Catches are you need to obtain and build the debootstrap source on the existing system, meet a couple of pre-requisites (including wget) and said existing system needs to be able to get network access to a Debian APT repository (but you were going to be configuring for one of those anyway, right?). Cheers, Vic Cross ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
