in 2009 I messed with debootstrap to set up a ide drive in a usb caddy - When I was done, put the drive in a headless box, power it up and it would boot into a new debian box. I forget where installing grub fit into this process. for sure it was a building a "normal" debian install on a blank drive.
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Larry Brigman <larry.brig...@gmail.com> wrote: > 'chroot' is an isolation/security mechanism. It doesn't allow programs > running within it to access anything except the kernel and the > programs/libraries within the chroot. > For what you are doing, think of it as a file system tree that you can test > most of your boot environment (short of booting) prior to needing to > actually boot it. > And because it is just a command away, it is fast to change and > experiment. > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> > wrote: > > > Those are among the pages that confused me long ago. > > > > They, without adequate background, say to use "chroot". > > My visualization of using debootstrap is to place Debian on a write only > > medium. > > The descriptions of "chroot" I've seen imply it's a crude VM like thingy. > > > > > > > > On 12/28/2017 09:30 AM, David Bridges wrote: > > > >> Search for debootstrap, the link provided earlier was for an extremely > >> old version of Debian although a search for dbootstrap debian | debian > >> dbootstrap in search engines finds current documentation > >> > >> debootstrap wiki page > >> https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap > >> > >> Current Debian install guide > >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/index.html.en > >> > >> debootstrap section in current install guide > >> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en#idm46300556 > >> 432288 > >> > >> To me this doesn't really sound like what you are looking for but only > >> you can know for sure. > >> > >> -- > >> David > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Carl K _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
