Create an installation bypassing the boot process

[Mihai Popa]

Hi Philip,

thank you very much for your quick response.
You are right, I did not define correctly my goal:  I want to install on the
same drive, just on a different directory so that I can serve the image over
the network to other machines, without having to partition.

thank you in advance
mihai

>
> >I'm trying to create a new install on a secondary disk mounted on a
> >machine which already runs Linux (Fedora Core 3). I've been trying (
> >with no success :( ) to figure out a way to start anaconda from the
> >command line. Looks like the it is always called by the kernel, right
> >(at/after) boot.
>
> No, there's no magic in the kernel; it launches /sbin/init as always.
> init calls loader, loader calls /usr/sbin/anaconda (usually). See
> loader2/loader.c for details. Please then reconsider what you're trying
> to accomplish and why - running the installer like this is unusual and
> unnecessary. Why not simply use the partitioning and bootloader
> kickstart options to install onto the secondary disk?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
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