chroot installation on live system + podcast of Jeff Waugh

[David Hart]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 06:57:47PM +0000, David Hart wrote:
> Check out the installation from hard disk.
> 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/ch04s04.html
> 
> I've done it a few times like this.  You put a kernel and initrd on your
> hard disk and use the current boot loader to boot them.  I've only used
> grub to do this (it's quite convenient as you can edit the line
> manually at boot time) but it should work with lilo as well (if you edit
> lilo.conf (have I got that right) before hand).

I should add, that there are two kernels and initrds that you can use.
One comes with network card drivers so that you can configure a
repositry and do the installation entirely over the net.  The others
have no network and will look for an iso image on your disk to install
from.  It should be reasonably obvious which is which from their
location on archive.ubuntu.com.

Oh, and if you do the iso method (you can name the iso anything you
like as long as its a proper Ubuntu install iso and its name ends in
iso) make sure you put it on a partition that you are not going to
use in the install.  You can reclaim the space later.
  
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David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>