What I'm trying to do is create a fresh fake root environment without having to wipe a currently installed system, be in front of the machine or have to take a snapshot of a running system environment. The idea is to be able to install a fresh system, tar up the root of this system and place it in a location that it can be retrieved from when required. While the easiest way of getting a system image like this is to have a dedicated machine, but that unfortunately is not always available. I think if I have a spare disk I can run anaconda from the live machine and use the network install method to install from cd images over the network to the extra harddrive without imaging the running system. I have yet to try this out. Obviously I would perfer if anaconda could be told not to reboot at the end. I've been looking to see if it is possible using anaconda to get it to install to a directory on the current system treating it as the root directory without having to repartition or install over the existing system. This would skip the requirement of a spare disk, but it looks to me that anaconda will always request you to partition the disks and select the partition to install to. Don't think this can be overriden using kickstart files or any of the anaconda commandline options, but correct me if I'm wrong. The other alternative is to skip anaconda and write a small script to do the basic steps manually. 1) Unpack the base system to the required location (is it the stage2.img file thats used or something else as the base?) 2) Determine the required rpms to install from the comps file using the various python scripts. 3) install all the rpms using --root to point to the correct directory. -- Darragh Bailey "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool"
