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Re: Minimal chroot install method?
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 7 May 2007 18:04:13 +0200
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Hi,

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Brett Viren wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to lay down a minimal SL4 install to be used only via
> "chroot" running from the hosting distribution (Debian).  I don't need
> kernel, bootloader, init scripts nor any servers. I just need enough
> to build and run some 3rd party software (Gaudi+LCGCMT).
>
> In Debian there is "debootstrap" to accomplish this.  Is there
> something equivalent in SL or does anyone have pointers on how to
> build this chroot install?

yum --installroot=/tmp/mychrootenv install x.rpm y.rpm ...

Hth,
   Stephan

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