In Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:21:38 -0600 Ben cum veritate scripsit : > > Hi. I don't suppose anyone could point me to a set of instructions for > creating a sid chroot area? I want to test some build dependencies. I > have > already tried using debootstrap to make a woody chroot but this barfs > around > console-data each time. > > Any help would be appreciated - thanks, >
mkdir chroot && cd chroot && tar xvfzp /path/to/base2_2.tgz && \ chroot `pwd` bin/bash then you have a potato chroot, at your liberty to upgrade to unstable. This kind of script is nice... put this into your chroot's /etc/init.d/ #!/bin/sh -e # hacked version of Adam Heath's code by Junichi Uekawa 22 Oct. 2000 # modified 25 oct 2000 if [ -e /etc/init.d/$(basename $0) ]; then # inside chroot hostname -F /etc/hostname HOME=/root exec /bin/sh --login else # starting outside the chroot dir=$(realpath $(dirname $0))/../.. files="/etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts /etc/hostname" for f in $files; do cp $f $dir/$f done mount proc -t proc $dir/proc || echo "Warning: failed mounting proc" chroot $dir /etc/init.d/$(basename $0) umount $dir/proc fi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4