On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 18:15 -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote: > On 4/28/05, Joseph Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We'll discuss all kinds of things like that in our May roundtable. > > Yeah, I knew that, and I didn't want to stir up a distro war. I am > interested to know if anyone has indeed installed a debian-based > distro (or any other for that matter) in a chroot partition on a > running linux box.
Hi Rick, Do you have a spare hard disk or a spare partition (just a few GB is fine) on that machine or even a different machine? If so, you could easily install almost any distro onto it and then copy it over to use as your chroot-ed environment. Its easy and it works: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other- formats/html_single/Multi-Distro-Dev.html And speaking of chroot-like things, Jeremy Katz gave a very neat Xen demo at FUDCon #1: http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/FUDCon1/ during which he did a quick install/setup of Fedora within a Xen environment on a running Fedora system. Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
