"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? > > 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?
not really. It should not be *really* hard for a DrakX expert, but it's not available. So, do not even try :) you can have a look at the "oem" script (and the things that go with it) from the rescue. Its purpose is partly this. but anyway, what you want is mainly "rpm --initdb /the_dir ; rpm --root /the_dir -Uvh ...", DrakX is just doing some more configuration that you can do on your own (?)
