On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Patrick Devine wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, John wrote: > > > > it uses stage2.img). There shouldn't be that many technical issues about > > > getting this to work correctly, so did it just fall off the radar at Red > > > Hat? > > > Tecnical issue: Where's it going to put the installer's filesystem? With > > NFS, it cn mount the filesystem via NFS. > > Yes, I looked at that, but it could easily store it on a ram disk. > The RPMs themselves would still need to be transferred seperately, but > this is an SMOC, and not a real technical limitation. > > > Note that it's Red Hat Linux 9, not 9.0. Calling it 9.0 implies there > > will be a 9.1, and I'm offering London to a brick there won't be. > > Yes, you're probably right. Leave it to Red Hat to get rid of a perfectly > good numbering scheme. I've been using RHL since 3.0.3 though so I guess Ditto. I've decided RH has left me, and I'm moving to Debian. > this isn't the first time their versioning will get all screwy. > > > Install RHL 9 on a computer. Back it up using (maybe) tar. > > Restart it somewhere into a directory on your workstation, maybe into > > /var/local/RedHat/9 > > To do you work, > > chroot /var/local/RedHat/9 > > You don't really need to even install it to a seperate computer. You can I have a script I've been using (and adapting) since RHL 7.0. However, it completely bypasses RHL's install-time setup. True, transferring an installed image between computers does that too, but it's an easier process to recommend than hacking round with rpm as I did;-) > create a fake root directory and use "rpm --initdb" to start an rpm > database inside of that fake root. Then just mull through the comps list > and start installing rpms with the "--root=" option and slowly build up a > filesystem. If you want to get really fancy, you can solve the dependency > tree and come up with an ordered package list. You can do this pretty > easily with a perl/python script which reads in the output of "--provides" > and "--depends" of the complete rpm package set. Install with --nodeps;-) Check the integrity with 'rpm -Va --root.' > > My problem with this though is that it's an ugly hack. It would be nice Exactly. Besides, you get to run the wrong version of rpm. Can rpm from Valhalla install RHL 9 packages? > if Red Hat would fix their makefiles to make them more relocatable, > although I guess it's probably not in their best interest to do so. It's also possible to use Anaconda (that's how RH folk test it) on a running system, but I'm not at all sure about running Anaconda 9 on Valhalla. -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
