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Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For Intel x86 Chapter 7 Using dbootstrap for Initial System Configuration

7.1 Introduction to dbootstrap

dbootstrap is the name of the program which is run after you have booted into the installation system. It is responsible for initial system configuration and the installation of the “base system”.

Navigation within dbootstrap is accomplished with the arrow keys, Enter, and Tab.

If you are an experienced Unix or Linux user, press Left Alt-F2 to get to the second virtual console.

At this point, the next menu item presented should be “Initialize a Linux Partition”.

elect the “Next” menu item to initialize and mount the / disk partition. The first partition that you mount or initialize will be the one mounted as / (pronounced “root”).

Once you've mounted the / partition, the “Next” menu item will be “Install Operating System Kernel and Modules”

Select installation medium

7.9 “Install Operating System Kernel and Modules”

This should be the next menu step after you've mounted your root partition, unless you've already performed this step in a previous run of dbootstrap. First, you will be asked to confirm that the device you have mounted on root is the proper one. Next, you will be offered a menu of devices from which you can install the kernel. Choose the appropriate device from which to install the kernel and modules.

If you are installing from a local filesystem, select the “harddisk” device if the device is not yet mounted, or the “mounted” device if it is.

harddisk

Next, select the partition where the Debian installation software was installed back in Booting from a Hard Disk, Section 6.3.

hda1, the default

Next you'll be asked to specify the location on the filesystem where you put files; make sure you put a leading “/” on the location.

/db_inst

/instmnt/db_inst

documented on: 2000.06.25