Revision 15 as of 2006-10-25 16:39:49

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Warning /!\ This is a work in progress, this means that I'm on it right now, it is not finished yet and it may breake your system!

Caveat

As you may already have guessed following this instruction may breake your systme and you are on your own to fix it again.

Partitioning

Use fdisk to partion your hard disk. 

# fdisk /dev/hda

For the rest of this instruction we assume the following partition layout. 

/dev/hda1 (83  Linux)        - for /
/dev/hda2 (82  Linux swap)   - as swap

# mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
# mkswap /dev/hda2
# sync; sync; sync
# swapon /dev/hda5

mkdir /mnt/ubuntu

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/ubuntu

Installing the Base System

If your current system is rpm based, use alien to install it or find a rpm on the web (http://azhrarn.underhanded.org/debootstrap-0.2.23-1.i386.rpm). 


Chrooting


mount -t proc none /mnt/ubuntu/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/ubuntu/dev
LANG= chroot /mnt/ubuntu /bin/bash


Installing OpenSSH Server


apt-get install openssh-server


Install a Kernel


apt-get install ....


Installing GRUB


apt-get install grub
mkdir /boot/grub
cp /lib/grub/i386-pc/* /boot/grub
vim /boot/grub/grub.conf
# /boot/grub/grub.conf
default 0
timeout 3

title=Ubuntu
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
  initrd /initrd.img
ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst
# grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit


Reboot


# exit
# umount /mnt/ubuntu/proc
# umount /mnt/ubuntu/dev
# umount /mnt/ubuntu
# reboot


Finishing


apt-get install ubuntu-standard


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