Re: About chroot

2005-08-26 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:11:09PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > Several questions about chroot. > > - I need to chroot into an alien system. I.e., I need to chroot into a 2.6 > kernel from my 2.4 kernel. Is that ok? > No, you chroot into a directory, not a kernel. You may need something like

Re: About chroot

2005-08-26 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/25/05, Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Several questions about chroot. > > - I need to chroot into an alien system. I.e., I need to chroot into a 2.6 > kernel from my 2.4 kernel. Is that ok? chroot cannot change kernels. It is, however, safe to chroot into the root filesystem of a

Re: About chroot

2005-08-26 Thread Valter Toffolo
2005/8/25, Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Several questions about chroot. > > - I need to chroot into an alien system. I.e., I need to chroot into a 2.6 > kernel from my 2.4 kernel. Is that ok? it depends on what you're gonna do. chroot will change your /, but the system will be the same. mo