You can check out this guide:
http://www.saurik.com/id/10
It's specific for running Debian on the G1 phone but the first part of it
explains (and links to a different guide) how to set up what you want.
Hope that helps.
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Paul Bransford <draeath@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pardon the cross-group email, if anyone is a member of both.
>
> Here's the situation. My existing install is Fedora 10. I want to put
> Ubuntu (specifically Ubuntu-Studio) or Debian Lenny on the system, but I
> don't have any free partition space, and XFS cannot be shrunk.
>
> Does anyone know if debian-installer can be coaxed into installing the
> system to a file on another filesystem? The trick is, the file would be
> living on an XFS volume... I know how to create a target filesystem, and
> how to boot it with grub, but I'm worried about the installer itself and
> all the magical scripts that go along with the distro.
>
> If this is going to be a complete pain-in-the-butt I am thinking that
> using this as an excuse to do Linux-From-Scratch again...
>
> The intended use will be a realtime kernel with jackd and a few audio
> applications. It won't need to be a full desktop system, so it shouldn't
> be too horrible to put together. I've done LFS once before, so...
>
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