On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:01:25 -0500, Tom H wrote: >> I upgrade inside the chroot so the unupgraded system can go on serving >> my users while the upgrade happens. > >> This time I encountered a new problem: > >> dpkg-preconfigure: unable to open stdin > >> Now I presume this is because /dev is absent from the chroot and it's >> trying to use /dev/fd/0 -- the device that acts like stdin. What do I >> do to set things up so that I have a valid /dev? The /dev outside the >> chroot is set up by udev. Is there some way of mounting it from inside >> the chroot? Is there some way of duplicate-mounting it from outside so >> it's visible inside? And there are probably similar problems with >> /proc, though I haven't hit them yet. > > Before chroot > mount -o bind /dev /mountpoint/dev > > I usually do the same with /sys, /proc, and /dev/pts.
Thanks. Wouldn't doing it for /dev accomplish it for /dev/pts as well? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
