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