Gabriel Rosa said: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Rick Moen wrote: >> I may be missing something important, here (long day, up late), but wouldn't this be >> a perfect situation to use chroot? > > Ya, that would work but not 100% the way I want it. > > With a chrooted envr, I'd need to pull the base system from a mirror, unpack, etc, > then do the install. > > I'd like to take advantage that the system I'm using already has a working OS and > would simply like apt to go it's magic in a different directory.
I don't know much about Debian, but couldn't you copy the working OS to the target directory and then chroot? > Plus, chroot requires you to be root. (which is not a problem, but something I'd like > to avoid). See http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/. Really cool stuff. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
