On Thu December 22 2005 11:26, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:21:36PM +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote: > > i have dowlaoded the cds of fedora core 4, but i can't figure out how > > ito nstall it into a vserver running on debian.i am new so please easy > > instrucion would be appreciated. > > well, as Linux-VServer does not do system emulation > (i.e. you won't get a virtual CD drive and such), just > system (and resource) isolation, you basically have to > solve the problem: > > "How do I install FC4 from a bunch of CDs into a directory?" > Herbert, A few more solutions... First three questions: 1) Is one of the FC4 cds bootable? 2) Can you shutdown your target machine? 3) How old is your version of Bash?
Ans. 3) bash --version If it is anything older than the 3.0 version that is in Debian/Sarge, stop here and upgrade it. Independent of your answer to #1 and #2 - use the "vserver <name> build" command to build the basic file structure on your system. I think it has a framework for fc4 Quick info on the vserver build command enter: vserver AnyName build --help A detailed guide to building a generic vserver is at: <http://www.spamviz.net/download/step_step.ps.gz> There is a minimum chance of trashing your system with those directions - play with it until you feel ready to continue. - - - If you do not want to shut down your machine - - - - If you are running a linux kernel compatable with version-2.6.14 plus the vserver-2.0.1 patch on at least an Intel i686 box... You can download a compressed version of that generic vserver from: <http://www.spamviz.net/download/baby01.bin.gz> Unpack and follow the directions in section 6.7 of the step by step instructions to wake up the baby. Bingo - you are now in a virtual server that acts as if you had booted your machine with the option: init=/bin/bash Follow the FC4 installation instructions from the point where you are replacing a working system (if those exist) with a network source of the FC4 stuff. (I do not expect the current baby01.bin to support cd/dvd device access.) - - - - if you can boot from the FC4 install disk - - - - Well, as Herbert said, find out how to make the installer do the installation into the directory that you created with the "vserver <name> build" command rather than the entire disk system. - - - - Mike - - - > and the solutions could be: > > - use rpm with the --root= option to get the packages > installed into a dir > > - use UML or QEMU or some full system emulator to > install the CDs in a virtual machine and copy the > resulting installing into a directory > > - adjust/adapt (or just trick) the CD installer into > isntalling FC4 on a separate dir/partition > > - setup a repository (apt-rpm, yum) to install from > and use the util-vserver tools to install a guest > from scratch (which is the preferred way) > > HTH, > Herbert > > > _______________________________________________ > > Vserver mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > > _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
