-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Matt Miller wrote: >> I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, and I want to >> build an etch i386 system on it. I partitioned the drive, and used >> debootstrap to lay down a minimal i386 system on the drive. The problem >> is that I want to chroot into that system to do some more stuff, but the >> chroot fails: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash chroot: cannot run >> command `/bin/bash': Exec format error > >> So, what's next? Don't I need to be able to get into that i386 system >> and install a kernel and do some other things? Can this type of cross- >> system build be done? > > > > Maybe my newbieness is showing here, or I have true insight, don't know > which, but it looks to me as there is an extra space in there. > > chroot /mnt/debinst/bin/bash. Does that not work? > > Joe >
Forget that message, I checked the man afterward and I was right, my stupidness showed up. It is chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND...] Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGF+C8iXBCVWpc5J4RAmeWAKC2wTzxTOOqSAYYnAFmFvTeGz2NtgCfQiSs EPUY4a2ziiKisOhCNUrnvOs= =5V9+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
