Other distros (was RE: Waxing Philosophical)

[Allen Ziegenfus]

On the fine day of Mon, 4 Oct 2004 22:38:02 -0600
Michal Jaegermann <michal at ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca> said very
eloquently:

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:31:09PM -0400, Allen Ziegenfus wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to do a chroot install of Fedora? 
> 
> You mean installing on file system(s) different from ones where you
> are starting to operate?  This is really what all "regular installers"
> do. Usually you work from a ramdisk but this is not as much as
> requirement but the most convenient way to start on something meant to
> be used in varying circumstances.  You could install on your target
> some "skeleton system", chroot there, and continue with the rest of an
> installation. Normally there is no need to do that unless you are are
> in development of a new distribution and you have somehow to bootstrap
> the whole thing.

I guess I really meant was can you install Fedora from another existing
Linux distribution. I've done this with both debian and gentoo and it
makes things easier. You don't have to worry about creating installation
media and you can still use your existing system while the old one is
building. 

Allen--