On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 00:01 +0000, Tom H wrote: > If you're booted into Arch, you can use systemd-nspawn and let it set > up the chroot for you.
That's interesting, a few seconds learning curve wasn't very successful, but I at least was able to run apt-get update (not finished because the access to the servers is slow, I need to search for better mirrors). [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -D /mnt/debi386/ Spawning namespace container on /mnt/debi386 (console is /dev/pts/1). Init process in the container running as PID 2476. root@debi386:~# kill 2476 -bash: kill: (2476) - No such process root@debi386:~# synaptic (synaptic:45): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: root@debi386:~# apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates InRelease Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy InRelease Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org wheezy-updates InRelease [125 kB] [snip] Get:13 http://ftp.de.debian.org sid/main Sources/DiffIndex [7876 B] 100% [Waiting for headers]^C root@debi386:~# shutdown -h now shutdown: /run/initctl: No such file or directory init: /run/initctl: No such file or directory root@debi386:~# exit logout Container failed with error code 1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1388191401.662.33.camel@archlinux