On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 08:21:47AM -0800, aphro wrote: > was thinking about this for a while, would it be possible to install > glibc2.1 in a chroot() enviornment in slink? has anyone tried this? i > got too much stuff customized in my home machine to upgrade it to potato > 99.9% of my important stuff will break. > > if anyone has tried this lemme know what you did please :)
I've gone the other way: installed a glibc2.0 in a chroot environment in
potato (potato's bash, among others, dies because it uses 2.1 features).
So here's the procedure:
1. Download the Debian base tar.gz, from e.g.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/foo/main/disks-bar/current/
2. Untar the file above into some directory, e.g. under /usr/local
3. Copy /etc/hostname, /etc/hosts, and /etc/resolv.conf.
4. Chroot.
5. apt-get update and apt-get install whatever you need. It's really
that easy.
6. It probably wouldn't hurt to mount /proc and /dev/pts (if your
slink kernel uses it) inside the chroot, if possible.
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