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Re: [PLUG] installing linux virtually
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On Monday 16 December 2002 01:26 pm, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 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?
No, by no means do i wish to boot into any of them. Thats what im trying to
avoid. The idea is that I can sit in SuSe and chroot in to each install to
build an rpm. I have tested this with MDK, RH and SuSE, but I had to install
them manually. The goal is to add new dists to this setup from SuSE, via
something like rpm -ivh or whatnot, but so far i have not had much luck.
- -ian reinhart geiser
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