Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread David Christensen
On 12/7/18 7:36 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: This is sort of a continuation of the thread started with the post "Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?" (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00144.html) Aside: the programmer has been able to send me a bina

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread Carl Fink
On 12/8/18 9:21 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, December 08, 2018 02:59:15 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: You are over-complicating things. I can believe that ;-) You can build chroot in just a separate folder using debootstrap. Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.12.2018 19:21, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try at least at first. > > Looking ahead, if I later want to experiment with real VMs, do they need to > be > on separate partitions or can they also just be in separate folders? > > And if they can be

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 09:21:33AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Looking ahead, if I later want to experiment with real VMs, do they need to > be > on separate partitions or can they also just be in separate folders? > Every VM solution that I can think of supports using disk image files

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-08 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, December 08, 2018 02:59:15 AM Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > You are over-complicating things. I can believe that ;-) > You can build chroot in just a > separate folder using debootstrap. Ahh, ok, then that is almost surely what I'll try at least at first. Looking ahead, if I lat

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-07 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.12.2018 8:36, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > This is sort of a continuation of the thread started with the post > "Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?" > > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00144.html) > > Aside: the programmer has been able to send

Re: Setting up a chroot on a Jessie system to compile a program using sid

2018-12-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:36:43PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > One of the partitions I could free up is 16 GB, the other is 54 GB -- I'd > rather free up and use the smaller one, but I'm wondering if that will be big > enough? I would be amazed if 16GB wasn't enough. All you'll be do