Re: dchroot with differnt linux distro ?

[Rolf Seuster <seuster@phys.hawaii.edu>]

Hi Tollef and all,

it works partially, e.g. starting another program with dchroot does not
work, opening a shell with dchroot works!?? Any ideas ?

thanks, Rolf

here's the output :
seuster@Calvin:~$ dchroot
Executing shell in 'SLC3' chroot.
[Calvin] /home/seuster >
[Calvin] /home/seuster > echo bla
bla
[Calvin] /home/seuster > exit
logout
seuster@Calvin:~$ dchroot echo bla
(SLC3) echo bla
echo: /bin/echo: cannot execute binary file
dchroot: Child exited non-zero.
dchroot: Operation failed.

and

seuster@Calvin:~$ dchroot /usr/local/bin/bash
(SLC3) /usr/local/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/bash: /usr/local/bin/bash: cannot execute binary file
dchroot: Child exited non-zero.
dchroot: Operation failed.


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> * Rolf Seuster
>
> | is it possible to use dchroot to mix a debian-amd64 with a different linux
> | distribution, e.g. scientific linux cern (based on RedHat Enterprise) Or
> | do significant differences between Debian and RedHat make this impossible?
>
> As Hugo Mills writes -- this should work fine.  Assuming that the
> RedHat folks haven't done something strange which requires you to have
> certain kernel patches applied or anything like that.  RH used to have
> a ton of kernel patches in the past, though I don't remember if you
> had to apply any of them if you decided to use your own kernel instead
> of the vendor-supplied one.
>
> --
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