[CLUE-Tech] Debian: gpm not installing by default

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Collins (erichey2 at attbi.com) wrote:
> Just an afterthought.  The basic install CD is a relatively small
> beast, although they do now have larger CD's with more precompiled
> (686 only) software.  If you already have a runing linux system, just
> download the equivalent tarball, format an empty partition (3-5gig is
> oodles), untar the tarball into it, and resume in the install
> instructions with the setup for chroot and bootstrap operation.
> 

If your are already running debian, it is as easy as:

debootstrap woody targetdir

This will download and unpack the base tarball, giving you a ready to
chroot into debian system.

Tim
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