Tom Horsley wrote:
Is there any technique out there (I've seen vague references
to "cluster manager") that will allow me to do the equivalent
of installing fedora in user mode to a disk image file?
In other words, I want to be able to do the install without
taking down the system, but instead simply install to a
filesystem image on disk or an actual physical disk drive.
Then I could pop the drive in another box, or boot it as a VM,
etc.
I'm not actually needing this for anything, I'm just curious
if this sort of thing has been done, and if so, what I should
be reading to find out more :-).
livecd-creator (from the livecd-tools package) can create a bootable iso
from a kickstart file.
I use this tool and burn the resulting isos to media for testing.
Apparently some people on the fedora-livecd-list have booted the images
in VMs.
If the ks file has the anaconda-runtime package in the package list, the
iso boot menu will display an option to install the system to a hard drive.
livecd-creator requires root access to create the temporary image space
though.
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John
