On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:23, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I've heard of several methods of installing Debian within an already > running Debian install on the same partition. > > - Bochs: an emulator, does this recreate a system worthy of a debian > install? or will emulator-specific problems arise?
Can't say I've tried it, so I'll leave that one for someone else .. > - chroot: what's a chroot? chroot changes a process' view of the filesystem .. specifically, where the root of the filesystem is (hence ch(ange)root). Here's an example transcript: /root # cd /mnt/redhat /mnt/redhat # ls bin boot dev etc halt home initrd lib lost+found misc mnt opt proc root sbin tmp usr var /mnt/redhat # chroot . /bin/sh / # ls bin boot dev etc halt home initrd lib lost+found misc mnt opt proc root sbin tmp usr var There I've started /bin/sh but chroot'd so that /mnt/redhat appears as / (but only to /bin/sh and it's children - the rest of the system is untouched). See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot for more details > - UML: patch for kernel? I don't want to recompile my kernel While User-Mode Linux can benefit from a kernel patch (the skas patch), it's just a normal process - it doesn't require any modifications to your running kernel. Simply apt-get install user-mode-linux (and optionally user-mode-linux-docs), then grab a pre-made filesystem for it from either http://people.debian.org/~mdz/uml/ or http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/dl-fs-sf.html See the howto on user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net for more details. > Are there any other ways of doing this I'm not aware of? Not that I'm aware of - bochs and similar will run linux within an emulated PC, user-mode-linux will let you run linux within it's own kernel, and chroot will let you run a process within it's own corner of the filesystem. Which is better simply depends on how isolated from the host machine you want the "linux within linux" to be. > I have 1 hard drive with a windows partition, and one each of /, /boot, > and scratch partitions, running Woody on the linux side. chroot uses an existing directory, uml uses files containing filesystems - neither will require new partitions. > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Joel Konkle-Parker > Webmaster [Ballsome.com] > > Phone [662-518-1636] > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hope this helps / makes sense Shaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
