On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:27, ext Bill Crawford wrote: > Hi, > > A week or three back, Erik said: > > > You can run anaconda on an already installed machine and have > > it install into a subdirectory, skipping all of the mounting > > stuff. You'd have to partition by hand, but you *should* even be > > able to kickstart this way. > > > > Install anaconda-runtime and run "anaconda -r /path/to/install -m > > nfs://path/to/full/nfs/tree". Note that the second path needs to be > > CD1 + CD2 (overlaid!), not just pointing to a CD (well, unless you > > don't need any packages from CD2 anyway). You'll need to install > > lilo/grub yourself, but the correct config file should get written > > out. A modules.conf and other minutia (sp??) will need to show up > > somehow as well. Again, that shouldn't be impossible as long as > > you're installing similiar machines. Once it boots kudzu will do > > most of that bit for you anyway. > > I've not been able to get this to work. It launches OK (and I'm > quite impressed with the speed and whatnot of it running under the > real X server and not on the framebuffer) but then bombs out after > it gets to the "partitioning" dialog ... should that not be skipped > when I've specified a root to install to? It still tries to *read* the partition tables on each drive you have present so you'll need to run it as root. It'd be nice to have at least a command line switch to turn the whole partitioning code off for these kind of purposes... - Panu -
