Nah, I've built plenty of custom kernels and had no problems there.
Sine that works, I would think I could get that part to work.
Especially since in this case, they are both slackware (and a 32-bit
system works fine under a 64-bit kernel)
I'll probably just install to a loopback device and set up fstab in
the primary system to mount it.
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Eben King<eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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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>
> Unix is user-friendly; it's just picky
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