Re: [SLUG] Installing debian variants into a file

From: Paul Bransford (draeath@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2008 - 17:22:55 EST


Yea, the whole money part.

I gave up and just repartitioned... I didn't have much unique data to
back up.

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 16:49 -0500, Joe Brandt wrote:
> Is there a reason you do not just install another hard drive? They are cheap
> enough.
> > 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.
> >

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