Re: wish: apt/dselect --root

[Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>]

"Alexander N. Benner" <Nikodemus@innocent.com> writes:

> hi
> 
> is it possible to include the --root option from dpkg also in dselect and
> apt-get ?
> 
> My task is to install debian on a second harddrive remote (so I cannot just
> reboot) now I must install all packages by hand using dpkg
> 
> Do I miss something?
> (ok .. it's not the most frequent situation, but it'd be  major + for debian)

Set up the base packages you need using --root.  Then use "chroot" to
go into that environment, and use dselect and/or apt.

I've done this many times.  Actually, my development system is running
potato - and I have a slink installation running in a chroot.  :-)

Cheers,

 - Jim