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.
You might want to take a look at pbuilder. At least the part where you create the jail. You then have to remove the destry part, but that will do for most of it. $ apt-cache show pbuilder Description: personal package builder for Debian packages pbuilder constructs a chroot system, and builds a package inside the chroot. J -- Jesus Climent | Unix System Admin | Helsinki, Finland. http://www.HispaLinux.es/~data/ | data.pandacrew.org ------------------------------------------------------ Please, encrypt mail address to me: GnuPG ID: 86946D69 FP: BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 ------------------------------------------------------ Registered Linux user #66350 Debian 3.0 & Linux 2.4.19 Where are you going, Starfish and Friends? --Chad (Charlie's Angels)
pgpIJZ2t34Vds.pgp
Description: PGP signature
