Re: [SLUG] chroot environments

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Jul 31 2009 - 17:01:54 EDT


On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Paul Bransford wrote:

> How would one go about installing a random distro into a chroot? This is
> assuming the 'host' and 'guest' don't have a faculty for this such as
> Debian's debootstrap?
>
> I've got a slackware64-current host here, and I need to run some stuff
> using Codeweaver's Crossover. Unfortunatly that requires a bunch of
> 32-bit stuff, and the best solution I can think of is to install
> slackware12.2 into a chroot.
>
> Any ideas? "real" virtualization isn't going to fit my need (for now).

I'm thinking that at some point you're going to need virtualization.
Distros generally want to run their own kernel.

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