On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:37:17AM +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote: > > > > 1) Is one of the FC4 cds bootable? > > 2) Can you shutdown your target machine? > > 3) How old is your version of Bash? > > 1. yes 1 cd is bootable > 2. yes i can shut ut down > 3 i use debain/sarge is that ok. > > > - 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) > > i did try to ue apt-rpm but could not figure i out. do i have to > install somethings on debian to use apt-rp/ there is not such package > in the debian stable main.
yes, that's a known debian deficiancy, it seems that this is one (the only?) distro where getting apt-rpm to work is a really tough job ... if you succeed to get that working, please write a short howto, guess a lot of folks will appreciate it > > 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. > > i have downlaoded a mandeake tar from > http://free.oszoo.org/download.html. > i tried to install install it but i got a few error. > could you tell me how to create an empty vserver so that i can copy > the mandrake installation in the tar over to that file by mounting the > image. vserver <name> build -m skeleton --context 42 .... (see http://linux-vserver.org/alpha+util-vserver for some examples and most options) replacing the 'empty' guest dir by your untarred mandrake guest should do the trick ... 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
