Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here. It worked. I also used terminology. I will try out lxc in a little while. Regards and thanks Michael Fothergill On 5 February 2016 at

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-07 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:43:48PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to > chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here. > > It worked. > Excellent! Thanks for the update.

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-05 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 08:22:53PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 5 February 2016 at 12:49, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 5 February 2016 at 12:49, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: > > > >

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-05 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: > > 1. Make a mount point, say /mnt/ubuntu; > > 2. Mount the partition Ubuntu is on,

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-05 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:49:59PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > This is good advice, and these steps can be automated with the schroot > package. > > For any non-trivial operations inside your guest systems, such as > installing packages or running daemons, I can recommend

using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-04 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I am asking a general question about using chroot etc. On my AMD box here I am running Debian stretch. But I also have ubuntu installed on the same disk and I think a third linux distribution installed on a second hard drive. If I wanted to mount e.g. the partition with ubuntu on

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-04 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 10:55:26PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I am asking a general question about using chroot etc. > > On my AMD box here I am running Debian stretch. But I also have ubuntu > installed on the same disk and I think a third linux distribution installed >