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Created April 15, 2021 19:18 — forked from Tookmund/Debootstrap Install.rst
Install Debian or Ubuntu like Arch
  1. Download and boot from a Debian live CD: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
  2. Login with user:live
  3. Setup and mount disks at /mnt. Arch Linux has a good guide to this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning
  4. Install and run debootstrap
    • sudo apt-get install debootstrap
    • Replace RELEASE below with the name of the release you want to install, like ``jessie`` or ``vivid``
    • Debian: sudo debootstrap RELEASE /mnt http://ftp.debian.org/debian
    • (If Ubuntu) sudo apt-get install ubuntu-archive-keyring
    • Ubuntu: sudo debootstrap RELEASE /mnt http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
  5. Mount Filesystems: