[ale] Debian install - sanity check (Turned into SuSE via FTP)

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:29:15AM -0400, BruceG wrote:
[snip]
> Bruce (still contemplating Debian - have downloaded ISO's 1-5 of 3.0Stable, 
> just not sure at all of any skills in installing and configuring correctly. 
> Might be good to make a new partition and boot between SuSE, Debian and 
> Windows).

If you have plenty of disk space, you can install Debian in a chroot.
There is even a nifty tool to help do this called debootstrap.  There
are rpms for debootstrap here[1], but the site seems to be down right
now.  There are also instructions for installing Debian in a chroot
here[2].  And, of course, you can also install gentoo easily in a
chroot, if you want to try that again.

Good luck,
Jason

[1] http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/
[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
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