Thanks.. I'll let you all know how it turns out. ;-) -steve On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:17 AM, lkcl luke wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Steve Spicklemire <[email protected]> wrote: >> No doubt that's my trouble... I'll start over > > funfunfun :) if you absolutely have to, create a dchroot > environment. use debian/lenny or something (debootstrap). i've done > that before for 32-bit installs on a 64-bit system and it's worked > very well. > > mmm.... http://wiki.cedar-solutions.com/DebianDChroot > > that looks like extremely good instructions, to me. > > i went as far as to mount-bind /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and > /etc/group (!) and stopped at the one where it says "set the root > password", obviously. > > then all i needed to do was "dchroot bash" and could do everything i > needed from there. > > you really SHOULD however change the prompt! otherwise you have the > same hostname, same prompt, same access to filesystem, but... err.... > it's 32-bit ... err... :) > > remember to install the xorg libraries (you don't need the server), > if you do the /home mount-bind trick then you get access to the xauth > stuff so i believe you may just need to do export DISPLAY=:0.0 and any > x-apps (including pyjd) will work. > > > l.
