On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 17:23:55 -0400 "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Let's say I have a machine that has Mandrake Cooker on it. Let's also > say that I wanted to use the installer (drakx) to create a brand new > installation (i.e. root filesytem and whatnot) on some empty > partitions (LVM LVs actually) I have on the running system. Can I do > it? In other words can I install into some empty diskspace on a > running machine without having to reboot and do the installation that > way? Something like this from May of last year: http://pfortin.com/Linux/live_install.html T'would be NICE!! :^) Pierre > I seem to recall when I was building custom installations for the last > company I was working for with RedHat 7.0, Anaconda (the installer) > had a mode where you could just start it on a running system and it > would go through the steps and install into a directory passed to the > installer. I suppose this was used more by the Anaconda developers > for testing but it was nice for staging installs. > > Any way of doing something similar with DrakX? > > b. > > -- > Brian J. Murrell >
