2011/11/29 Alexander Leidinger <alexan...@leidinger.net>: > Hi, > > you can install the gentoo linux-dist in parallel to the default linux-base. > Gentoo will be in /usr/local, not in /compat/linux. As such you have to > manually start programs there via chroot. This means you do not have access > to you FreeBSD files like normally, except you do null-mounts into the gentoo > area. It also means your experience will not be as "integrated" as with the > defaut linux-base (the linux-base port does some effort to integrate FreeBSD > config files and installed resources like fonts). > > Just switching between them, like changing a symlink, is theoretically > possible, but the gentoo linux-dist port is not designed for this kind of > integration. It's a linux-"dist" port, not a linux-"base" port.
You can also use sysutils/debootstrap to install Debian somewhere. I use it with ZFS snapshots and clones and I'm really happy with it. To install Linux packages I just chroot and apt-get. It's a less straight-forward setup than with linux-base ports, but if you know both FreeBSD and Debian that's maybe the way to go :) > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- > Send via an Android device, please forgive brevity and typographic and > spelling errors. Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> hat geschrieben:I > noticed on http://www.freshports.org/commits.php an update to the Gentoo > Linux distribution. > > I know there are other Linux compatibility ports in the emulators category. > > Is it possible to install more than one Linux compatibility package or actual > Linux installation and switch from one to the other? > > I might want to install a Linux compatibility package and still be able to > run Linux software through an actual Linux installation, separate from the > FreeBSD Linux compatibility package. > > Or possibly be able to compare one Linux compatibility package to another. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: oliv...@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas." _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
