FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Leon Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote:

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>>I get most of what you suggest, although I'll have to research the
>>meaning of "mount it over loopback"  since I have never done that.  (I
>>have used chroot to salvage data from an unbootable drive onto a CD
>>using Knoppix.)
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Hmm, I must have had a senile moment, oops, "senior moment".   You don't 
need to chroot to burn from Knoppix.
I think I did use chroot to reinstall GRUB on a distro when the mbr got 
trashed.


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>>Could I  coax you into writing a little more detailed how-to?
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>Sure, its actually simple.
>0) Install whatever distro works well with WP8 
>on 1 harddrive, with just a single / partition (nothing separate for /usr 
>/home, etc) with the smallest / partition possible
>1) Once you're 
>comfortable that WP8 works fine there, either connect a 2nd HD to the WP8 
>system that is at least as large as the first, or make sure that the WP8 
>system is networked to whatever other system you want to ultimately use 
>(such as the one with FC6).  What you need to do here is use dd to take an 
>image of the WP8 / partition and either write that image as a file to the 
>2nd HD.  Or use the FC6 system as NFS server, mount it from the WP8 box, 
>and then dd the image to the NFS server
>2) So for the dd command you'd do:
>dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/nfs-mountpoint/wp8.img bs=10k
>3) Then once you've got the wp8.img on the target system (FC6), you just 
>mount it over loopback:
>mount -o loop wp8.img /mnt/wherever
>4) chroot into it:
>chroot /mnt/wherever
>5) and run wp8
>
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>I've done this before for a project at $DAYJOB which required me to use 
>SuSE-10.1 for a single task, once/month.  I was sick of maintaining a 
>system just for 15 minutes worth of work once a month, so I just imaged 
>the drive, dumped it on my primary system (which has FC6), and now life is 
>easier.
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Neat!  I'll give this a try.  For my setup copying the image to a DVD 
would be more convenient.
I'll post this on the Corel WP/L newsgroup.  

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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