On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:34:53 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have installed a minimal Etch system into a chroot. ... My purpose > is to get a clean system without leftover bits of everything from Bo to > Sarge. ... so I try not to reboot any more than nescessary.
ha, finally found one that's as "crazy" as I am. :-) > 1) I have noticed that ... don't know about that. > 2) Possibly an extention of #1 -- My wife and I have seperate X sessions > going simultaineously (currently using XFree86). Mine is always on vt07 > and hers is on vt08. Can I close down only my own session, leaving the > other session intact, then from the console chroot to my Etch system and > start Xorg up from there so that it will still be on vt07? I think so. I think have done that myself but I'm not 100% sure now. BTW, if you want to run X apps from your Etch, not to test the newly install Xorg, you can do it in you own X session. > 3) Since I have not yet installed a kernel and rebooted, I am running > off my old kernel (2.6.8) from Sarge, along with its modules and > drivers. How much is it reasonable to do in this chroot? Should I just > install a kernel and add it to my lilo.conf (keeping the old one, of > course) and reboot into the new system to get everything installed and > tested, or can I actually do this from the chroot (as I would prefer). Anything related with device would not work quite well, since Sarge uses hotplug whereas Etch uses udev. Other than that, I didn't notice anything. But I wasn't using it extensively. I only chroot it until I've customized it to my own taste -- a couple of days, less than a week. FYI, I had some serious problem with installing Xorg, and kernel. If you are having the same problem, I recommend to give grml (grml.org) a try. That's the one I'm using now. Experienced user can have a working Debian system under 20 minutes. tong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
