| Stephen Gran on Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:18:11 -0500 |
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Ian Reinhart Geiser said: > Greetings > Im wondering if anyone has every had the experience trying to install a dist > without the installer. My scenario is i have a large 60gb disk with about 10 > partitions. Ideally I would like to install a different linux dist to each > partition for packaging. Currently I reboot and install the dist using the > install cds, the only problem with this is Rh and MDK installer try their > hardest to take over the system and niavely assume that their install and > windows are the only two dists there. Google got me about 100 how-tos for > installing linux dists via the installer, but none for installing without the > compiler. > > Does anyone know of any scripts or ways to glean enough information to do a > chroot /blah rpm -ivh <rpmlist> ? on a particular partition? It sounds like you have enough room to actually leave an installed version of each distro on each partition. I would think having something like a shared /boot with kernels vmlinuz.debian vmlinuz.gentoo vmlinuz.redhat . . . and a lilo configuration that calls the appropriate /boot and / options. If RH and MDK keep trying to over write your setup, keep a working copy of lilo.conf in /boot (or on a floppy), and just copy it to the new /etc, rerun lilo, and it should be OK. Or maybe I'm misinterpreting? Do you not want to leave them permanently installed? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Five bicycles make a volkswagen, seven | | steve@lobefin.net | make a truck. -- Adolfo Guzman | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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