yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #1113 - 6 msgs

[Norberto Quintanar]

You should be able to do it as long as you have unallocated free
space on your hard drive.  Which is a requirement to "install not
update"


--- "Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer" <rfuhrer@ba-dsg.net> wrote:
> 
>  > How about a search of the archives?  It's been discussed before
> :)
>  >
>  > 
>
<http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-May/007966.html>http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-May/007966.html
> 
> 
> This thread actually talks about upgrading a 2.3 system to a 3.0
> one, which is quite different from what I'm asking.
> 
> What I want to know is why something like:
> 
>    $ mount -t ext2 -o ro,loop ramdisk.image /mnt/ramdisk0
>    $ (chroot /mnt/ramdisk0; /sbin/init)
> 
> doesn't work.  What do the installer's /sbin/init and /sbin/loader
> do, precisely?
> 
> At some point, I imagine the install has to boil down to
> chroot'ing, doing some mknod'ing, some unzipping and some rpm'ing.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
>    -- Bob 


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