Dear Folks, I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here.
It worked. I also used terminology. I will try out lxc in a little while. Regards and thanks Michael Fothergill On 5 February 2016 at 20:28, Dutch Ingraham <s...@gmx.us> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 08:22:53PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > On 5 February 2016 at 12:49, Michael Fothergill < > > michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey <mirko.part...@web.de> > wrote: > > > > > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > >> > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you > just > > >> > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the > steps: > > >> > > > >> > 1. Make a mount point, say /mnt/ubuntu; > > >> > > > >> > 2. Mount the partition Ubuntu is on, e.g., <mount /dev/sda3 > > >> /mnt/ubuntu>; > > >> > > > >> > 3. Change directory to /mnt/ubuntu; > > >> > > > >> > 4. <mount -t proc proc proc/>; > > >> > > > >> > 5. <mount --rbind /sys sys/>; > > >> > > > >> > 6. <mount --rbind /dev dev/>; > > >> > > > >> > 7. <mount --rbind /run run/>; > > >> > > > >> > 8. <cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/resolv.conf>; > > >> > > > >> > 9. <chroot /mnt/ubuntu /bin/bash>; > > >> > > > >> > 10. <source /etc/profile>; > > >> > > > >> > 11. <source ~/.bashrc>; > > >> > > > >> > 12. <export PS1="(chroot) $PS1" > > >> > > > >> > Of course, you will need to determine certain things up front and > > >> modify for > > >> > your particular needs, i.e., which partition Ubuntu is currently > > >> residing on, > > >> > whether you need network access, etc. > > > > > > > > If wanted a network connection could I add in /sbin/dhcpd as a command > > etc? > > > > MF > > Step 8 covers that. > > -- Climostat Ltd Rm 5169 The Heath Business & Technical Park The Heath Runcorn Cheshire WA7 4QX Tel. 01 928 515 015
