Out-of-band OS installation

[Dustin Decker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf
> Of Gerald Combs
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 6:44 PM
> To: kclug
> Subject: Out-of-band OS installation

[snip]

> where "redhat80" contained an entire Red Hat 8.0 distribution.  It would
> then be a simple matter to chroot into one of the directories, update
> SVN, and start building.
> 
> Assuming that I didn't want a separate partition for each distribution,
> how would I go about installing them?

I think this would be a good opportunity to examine User Mode Linux... you
can assign a file system to a new OS install, which in the same fashion as
programs such as VMWare keep that whole file system in a directory, etc.

Modern distros are coming with UML either ready, or darned close to it from
a new install.  SuSE Enterprise Server 9.0 does, as well as Fedora Core 3.
(I'm sure there are many others as well.)

Dustin