El mié, 16-07-2008 a las 21:13 -0400, Thomas H. George escribió: > The man page and a google search gave minimum info except for the link > to www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tip.en.html. Following by
I think that document is a little out of date. The 'MAKEDEV generic' for example, is not commonly used nowadays. > rote the prompts in 8.6.35.1 I think I succeeded in installing a minimal > Etch installation though the prompt never changed to chroot # when I > entered chroot /bkup/etch-root /bin/bash and a subsequent command > apt-setup was unknown. (I started by making the directory > /bkup/etch-root as I have lots of hard drive space in /bkup while 66% of > / is used.) > As I said, this document seems out of date. Apt-setup is not in lenny and I guess it's the same for etch. Try the debootstrap manpage instead. > > Next I proceeded to 8.6.35.2 again following the instructions by rote. > Now Ctl-Alt F8 allows a login as root with no password to an empty > directory. So? > > Is there a good thorough exposition of the uses of chroot? > 'man chroot' is a good start. For the specific use of creating a debian chroot, you might prefer debootstrap(8). Also, there's a lot of posts on the list about these (there were some recently) and definitely a lot more in google. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
