Equivalent of debootstrap for Fedora
Michel Salim
michel.salim at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 20:50:13 UTC 2006
2006/11/27, Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora_extras at normalesup.org>:
> Hi,
>
> As a Fedora Extras contributor, I would like to install parts of rawhide in a
> chroot (I currently run FC-5, and will upgrade to FC-6 soon).
>
> I know that I can install it with Anaconda, in a partition of my disk. But I
> would have prefere to do it without rebooting my computer.
>
> Is there a tool, similar to Debian's debootstrap, that allows to install a
> version of Fedora in a chroot? In a way, mock has this feature. Is there a
> practical way to use parts of mock code to do it?
>
You just answered it: mock
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/MockTricks
(see bottom of file)
Alternatively, install Rawhide as a Xen guest? I have not tried this,
since the last time I checked the Xen host kernel does not do ACPI.
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