On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:37:51PM +1000, Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2006, Aldo wrote: > >For those who are looking for a very easy and console-friendly d-i, have > >now a look at the BlinDIA Project Web Page: > > > Sounds good. Could I use this script to install Ubuntu? Not yet. Weve currently only worked around Debian. >Do I have to run it > from a Debian style distribution such as Knoppix or can I launch it from my > current Fedora core 4 distribution which I want to replace? Try it and please feedback to the BlinDIA mailinglist or here. As described on the site, you need Knoppix or Grml; it was made compatible for both: just retrieve the script, make it executable and launch it after you have prepared some free disk partitions with fdisk or cfdisk. It will aks for a root and a home partition; if you choose for one partition only, then of course all will be fit on that partition; if you already have a swap, that will be the swap for the news system, else it will create a .swp on the / partition of your new system. Finally, if you have doubts and don't like to see grub replacing your current bootloader at the mbr, then you simply enter /dev/fd0 when asked about grub; that's all, after these 3 questions, packages are downloaded, the base installed and base-config started where you can setup your timezone, hostname, create root and user account, set up mail agent etc. Attention, it is not intended to be as complete as a full fedora or Debian installation with desktop etc included: you will be able to use apt or aptitude to mark and add all the packages you need. But in 14 minutes your Debian is installed. Give it a try from within Fedora; but don't forget the script uses debootstrap to perform the installation; I ignore if that package is present at your Fedora distro. Aldo http://lists.ael.be/mailman/listinfo/blindia http://brlspeak.net/blindia.php _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list