[ale] Vserver + Disti

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 12:58:15PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> What I need to do is build a / from scrathc under vmware.  Thne tar it
> up and use it as my template for all the VDS"s that I need.  What is the
> best approach to get something simple?

Here is a link for installing a chroot Debian environment:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot

That assumes that you have Debian installed, though.  But it does
contain a link for installing a chroot Debian from a non-Debian OS:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200204/msg01010.html

The nice thing about Debian is you can use dselect or aptitude to
install only what you need.

> 
> So the above is what I really need I might have forgotten a few things
> but that is all.  Should I start with gentoo? 

That might be a good idea.  Get the stage 3 tarball, extract it, and
chroot, and you have a base system.  Then emerge what you need (after a
bit of tweaking first, of course).  Just remember that you will need to
compile everything, so install on a fast box.

Jason
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