On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:11, Carl Johnson wrote: > I want to set up a rescue/administration filesystem on an extra > partition, but I would like to be able to install packages without > rebooting into that filesystem. I already found that dpkg will handle > that with the --root option, but I would like to work at a little > higher level. I haven't found anything similar in apt-get, aptitude, > or dselect. Does anybody have any suggestions on other ways to > accomplish this, or are there other tools that I haven't discovered > yet? > > Thanks.
man chroot and look into using it. Should do all of what you need. After that to get really neat and spiffy you could try using user-mode linux which actually runs another copy of linux like an emulator. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
