Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:31:07PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I have two Linux installations in my hard drive, and I want to modify > Linux-2 from Linux-1, using Chroot. Basically "dpkg-reconfigure" and similar > stuff. How do I tell DPKG of Linux-2 to not disturb the daemons that are > ru

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
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 mak

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-31 12:15:33, schrieb koffiejunkie: > Say you are booted into Linux1, and linux 2 is mounted at /linux2, you > need to do this (assuming they are both recent distrobutions): > > mount -t proc proc /linux2/proc This should be mount -t none /proc /linux2/proc -o bind Thanks, Greetings

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
- Tong - wrote: > Matthew K Poer wrote: > > > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have > > searched around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that > > they know to be a good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works > > and what its capabilities are? > > Check

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew K Poer
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. Big question answered: you can

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched > around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a > good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? chroot is

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread - Tong -
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:04:10 -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched > around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a > good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? Ch

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Matthew K Poer
I have also thought heavily about doing this sort of thing, for developing and testing and such. My understanding is that there would be very close to having two differant GNU/Linux operating systems running at once, but using only one kernel. Once inside the chroot, BASH would be using tools f

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread koffiejunkie
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I have two Linux installations in my hard drive, and I want to modify Linux-2 from Linux-1, using Chroot. Basically "dpkg-reconfigure" and similar stuff. How do I tell DPKG of Linux-2 to not disturb the daemons that are running in Linux-1? Say you are booted into Lin