2005/8/25, Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Several questions about chroot. > > - I need to chroot into an alien system. I.e., I need to chroot into a 2.6 > kernel from my 2.4 kernel. Is that ok? it depends on what you're gonna do. chroot will change your /, but the system will be the same. modprobe won't work in the chrooted 'alien' system because it will look for modules on the chrooted /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ and will find 2.6 modules, that wont fit your 2.4 kernel.
> > - I heard all the fuzz about un/mounting the /proc, but I can't find any > documents on that. Can somebody explains me why it is so critical, or give > me a link to refer to please? hmm i know nothing about it as well, sorry > > - I need to apt-get from the chrooted system. but on my 1st attempt, I > was not able to connect to outside, even ping. But all the documents I > read (I'm remastering a live CD) didn't mention anything about the > connection problem. Have I neglect something, or there is something to do > before I can connect? > maybe you just need to edit /etc/resolve.conf in the chrooted /etc in order to fit your dns server?! i guess that's all good luck ;)
