Our new system is going to live in a file system. So first, we have to make
that file system using mke2fs. Then mount it somewhere. I'd suggest
/mnt/target. In what follows, I'll assume that this is where it is.
You could save yourself a bit of time by putting an
entry in /etc/fstab so that it mounts there automatically when the
source system comes up.
When we boot up the target system, the stuff that's now in /mnt/target
will be in /.
We need a directory structure on target. Have a look at the
File Heirarchy Standard (see section
Filesystem)
to work out what this should be, or just cd
to where the target is mounted and blindly do
mkdir bin boot dev etc home lib mnt root sbin tmp usr var
cd var; mkdir lock log run spool
cd ../usr; mkdir bin include lib local sbin share src
cd share/; mkdir man; cd man
mkdir man1 man2 man3 ... man9
Since the FHS and most packages disagree about where man pages should go, we need a symlink
cd ..; ln -s share/man man