Re: [arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch

2011-07-23 Thread Aurélien Chabot
There is some premade stuff on archlinux.fr : http://wiki.archlinux.fr/Install_chroot ( google translate will do the job if you don't understand french ) Here is the script use to create the chroot : http://calimeroteknik.free.fr/arch-guide/install-chroot.sh Aurélien Chabot

Re: [arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system?

2011-07-23 Thread Seblu
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an > Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora? Some times it more easy to create a local chroot with your arch, make a tarball, scp it and untar it. -- Sé

Re: [arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system?

2011-07-23 Thread Ray Rashif
On 23 July 2011 16:40, Magnus Therning wrote: > Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an > Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora? There is only 1 requirement: * pacman You can build pacman on your distribution, or use a prebuilt statically-linked

Re: [arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system?

2011-07-23 Thread Geert Hendrickx
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:07:28 +0200, Dan Vrátil wrote: > Theoretically, you just need to compile pacman and then you can continue > as if you were making an Arch chroot from an Arch system. I can't think > of anything easier :) Yes, that's how I've done it on CentOS. Converted a VPS from Cen

Re: [arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system?

2011-07-23 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:07:28AM +0200, Dan Vrátil wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:40:07 +0200, Magnus Therning > wrote: > > Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an > > Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora? > > > Theoretically, you just need to

Re: [arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system?

2011-07-23 Thread Dan Vrátil
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:40:07 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an > Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora? Theoretically, you just need to compile pacman and then you can continue as if you were making an Arch c

[arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system?

2011-07-23 Thread Magnus Therning
Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.o