On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 03:49:41PM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > I want to make a backup debian installation on another disk or partition. > > Is it possible to use apt or dpkg from a running system to install a > completely independent debian install on this other disk? I do not > want the installing system to be affected in any way. > > It looks like the dpkg --root=<some other disk partition> might work. > > Using apt would probably be more convienient though I didn't see > a "--root" option in the man page.
Steps were recently added in the install manual which would work for this using debootstrap. See http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html/#s-linux-upgrade -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
