Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

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
from /linux2/usr/bin, is that correct?

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?

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 7:15 am, koffiejunkie wrote:
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 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
chroot /linux2

then inside the chroot, whatever you do should not disturb what's
cooking in Linux-1

Remember to unmount proc from Linux-2 after leaving the chroot.

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