[CentOS] Installing from working Linux partition

Thu May 3 09:43:54 UTC 2007
Kai <mpupilnet at aim.com>

I think you can find out how to do this by learning the traditional way of XEN domainU installation ;) 

But the exist yum configuration may broken after doing that..

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Porter" <shiva at sewingwitch.com>
To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:52 AM
Subject: [CentOS] Installing from working Linux partition


> I've got some servers running other flavors of Linux (eg. FC2) and I'm 
> wondering if I can install CentOS5 to a new empty partition (eg. on a new 
> drive) while running under the old OS?
> 
> It seems like the installer OS just needs some hardware sniffing ability 
> and the ability to read the installation media and write to the target 
> media, so in principle one should be able to install from a working system 
> to the new partition and then update one's existing GRUB config. Is this 
> doable or perhaps even commonly done?
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