Install Fedora to separate partition or chroot on a running system?
Chuck Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Tue Jul 10 03:00:44 UTC 2007
Is there any way to install Fedora, using either anaconda or yum or
something else, to a separate partition or chroot path, on a system
while it is currently running and booted into Fedora? I realize you
can't safely upgrade a currently installed system while it is running,
but I want to install and/or upgrade a *separate* copy than the one
that is currently running. I was thinking of something along the
lines of what revisor does to create a Live media image, or what mach
does to create a buildroot, or what virt-manager/virt-install does to
install a Xen guest, but instead I just want to create a regular
Fedora install that I can then boot the real system into after it is
done installing. I realized that I might need to manually tweak the
bootloader, etc.
e.g. something along these lines would be excellent, where I have
already created the blank filesystems and mounted them under
/mnt/new-fedora-root:
anaconda --root=/mnt/new-fedora-root
Thanks.
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