On Nov 14, 2002 at 13:22, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
There are Debian installer CD's too. And get real, man! Nothing but hard drives? How did you install the existing system??
I had a dual-boot system. No, wait, it goes even further back.
I had a dual boot system. I cloned the Linux partitions onto another hard disk in that system and brought it to US with me.
Then I used that as the 2nd hard drive on a windows system, again dual-booting.
Then I bought enough parts for a new box and put the hard drive in there, making separate windows and Linux boxen. Then I bought another hard drive (hdb) for the Linux box (the infamous gort). I planned to clone the Linux installation and try to upgrade glibc, but now I'm thinking I might as well upgrade.
So, the Linux installation has been on that drive from the Bing Bang, effectively. Spontaneous creation as opposed to evolution.
Maybe you can transfer the installer image onto one of the hard drives and boot from it, and then install Debian on the other hard drive ...
I intend to put the Debian boot images on a partition, point LILO at it, and have Debian install on hdb.