On 5 March 2014 23:55, Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I install in a virtual machine where nothing can hurt my real
system, then I use the guestfs tools to copy the new installation
to the exact partitions I want it in, edit the fstab and grub
configs to point to the new partitions, and boot with the
configfile option from a separate stand alone grub2 partition
I have installed.
Heh!
Something like that had occurred to me. I had thought of installing
onto an external USB drive, then copying the result onto the hard
disk... But this should not be necessary!
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