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authorFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>2006-02-09 18:27:03 +0000
committerFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>2006-02-09 18:27:03 +0000
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<!-- retain these comments for translator revision tracking -->
-<!-- original version: 33719 untranslated -->
+<!-- original version: 34713 untranslated -->
<sect1 id="linux-upgrade">
<title>Installing &debian; from a Unix/Linux System</title>
@@ -87,17 +87,31 @@ The tool that the Debian installer uses, which is recognized as the
official way to install a Debian base system, is
<command>debootstrap</command>. It uses <command>wget</command> and
<command>ar</command>, but otherwise depends only on
-<classname>/bin/sh</classname>. Install <command>wget</command> and
+<classname>/bin/sh</classname> and basic Unix/Linux tools<footnote>
+
+<para>
+
+These include the GNU core utilities and commands like <command>sed</command>, <command>grep</command>, <command>tar</command> and <command>gzip</command>.
+
+</para>
+
+</footnote>. Install <command>wget</command> and
<command>ar</command> if they aren't already on your current system,
then download and install <command>debootstrap</command>.
-</para><para>
+</para>
+
+<!-- The files linked to here are from 2004 and thus currently not usable
+<para>
If you have an rpm-based system, you can use alien to convert the
.deb into .rpm, or download an rpm-ized version at
<ulink url="http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/debootstrap"></ulink>
-</para><para>
+</para>
+-->
+
+<para>
Or, you can use the following procedure to install it
manually. Make a work folder for extracting the .deb into: