On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, you seem to be really singing the praises of chroot. > > I have a spare 10gig partition on my hard drive. I originally considered > simply dual-booting Etch and Lenny, or Etch and Feisty, or something similar. > Perhaps instead I will make it a chroot jail for Lenny.
You don't need partitions for chroots, you can just make them in a folder on your root filesystem, say /var/chroot. This is more flexible than a partition, so you might consider merging that 10gb partition into your root file system--you can use gparted on a LiveCD for easy point-and-click partition editing (I've found Ubuntu LiveCDs particularly useful for this). > Big question answered: you can run X clients (applications) on your local, > non-chroot Xserver (display). Yes, remember--X is a network protocol and you can run clients on any network-connected computer, regardless of architecture or operating system. > So, again, it is a completely separate operating system installation, running > on the same kernel as the active, base OS? Yes. > So how do you handle the /boot partition? Do you have to redirect to the > active kernel, or is this sort of automatically taken care of by debootstrap? > (I have never used debootstrap). The system is already booted when you enter into your chroot. There is no need for /boot, as the kernel is already loaded into memory. However, if you want to have folders from your main system available in your chroot, 'mount --bind' is your friend. -- Andrew Barr We matter more than pounds and pence, your economic theory makes no sense... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
