On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:06:37AM +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote: > On Sep 15, 2013 12:50 AM, "Nick Sabalausky" < > seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote: [...] > > That's pretty nice. I'm still not *quite* linux-savvy enough to know > > what I'm doing with chroots (I know about them, but I've never > > actually set one up, and I'd have to look up how to do it.) > > > > It doesn't require much to set one up really. :) > > I've got a few scripts that builds chroots for Debian testing and unstable > for x86, x86_64, X32, and ARM environments (the latter uses QEMU emulation > mode to run the binaries on my system). [...]
Debian even has a package (debootstrap) for installing a functional base system onto a filesystem subtree (it's actually used by the installer to initialize a mounted drive that will be serving as root filesystem). It can't get any more convenient than that! :) (Though granted, a full base system install is probably total overkill if all you're looking for is a chroot jail for a single application.) T -- There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't.
