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[Xen-users] Re: VMWare and xen comparison

To: Black Dew <bdew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-users] Re: VMWare and xen comparison
From: Charles Duffy <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:34:10 -0600
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Black Dew wrote:
I am personaly using debian, and for me this is a nonproblem, installing a new copy of the os is as simple as:

mke3fs /dev/blah
mount /dev/blah /mnt
debootstrap sarge /mnt
umount /mnt

But most of the linux distros don't provide such capability.

Gentoo is very easy to install into a chroot -- just unpack the base image and run with the normal installation procedure. Debian, obviously, has debootstrap. SuSE has "yast dirinstall", which is a close equivalent.

If anyone else *isn't* capable of being easily installed into a chroot, then that distro is severely tardy with regard to its range of install options.

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