Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 09:24:53AM -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > It is better instead, to create a chroot of Ubuntu in the home directory > on the phone, and then install whatever console tools one thinks they > need to run a phone, in that chroot. Please suggest that instead of > making the root fs writable, as the latter will very quickly result in a > filled root partition, and depending on what gets installed, may cause > other issues in the system (which is of course, why it is unsupported), > for people who think they need to install such packages. :)
I tried this (but with Debian) and got stuck, I'd love to get it working but I'll probably need some help... this is what I have done so far: Create a disk: fallocate -l 1.5G /home/debian.img mkfs.ext4 debian.img Mount it: mkdir /home/debian chmod 700 /home/debian mount -o remount,exec,dev,suid /home/debian.img /home/debian Basic system install (note the /debootstrap directory had to be copied from another computer for some reason): apt-get install debian-archive-keyring export MY_CHROOT=/home/debian debootstrap --arch=armhf --variant=minbase wheezy $MY_CHROOT http://http.debian.net/debian for f in dev dev/pts proc sys ; do mount -o bind /$f $MY_CHROOT/$f ; done chroot $MY_CHROOT /bin/bash -l debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage Then I have this script to mount and chroot: #!/bin/bash export ROOT=/home/debian export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:$PATH export HOME=/root mount /home/debian.img /home/debian mount -o remount,rw,exec,dev,suid /home/debian.img /home/debian for f in dev dev/pts proc sys ; do mount -o bind /$f $ROOT/$f ; done chroot $ROOT /bin/bash -l But the last command fails if I run it on the phone, with the following (but it works if I ssh in): chroot: failed to run command '/bin/bash': Permission denied Any hints would be appreciated. All the best Chris -- Webarchitects Co-operative http://webarchitects.coop/ +44 114 276 9709 @webarchcoop -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
