Re: /emul can be used as chrootrg

[spamtree@comcast.net (A. P. Kennedy)]

Thank you sir! I started doing that. Now to get VMWare running and I
will be ready to rock and roll. 

I was concerned about over writing the original emul deb, but I guess
that is not a worry. 

Thanks

>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
 Bob> A. P. Kennedy wrote:
 >> New to chroot game but wanted to know if I could use
 >> /emul/ia32-linux/ directory as my chroot directory?
 >> 
 >> Should I setup a completely different chroot directory.

 Bob> Yes, that works fine. I do that all of the time. That is how I
 Bob> maintain the ia32 libraries. I just apt-get install what needs
 Bob> to be installed there. Very easy. For me it looks like this.

 Bob>   sudo dchroot apt-get upgrade sudo dchroot apt-get install
 Bob> mozilla-firefox

 Bob> And with the following in /etc/fstab:

 Bob>   /proc /emul/ia32-linux/proc none bind 0 0 /home
 Bob> /emul/ia32-linux/home none bind 0 0 /tmp /emul/ia32-linux/tmp
 Bob> none bind 0 0

 Bob> I can do this and run the 32-bit binaries of the browser so that
 Bob> closed source proprietary plugins only available in 32-bit mode
 Bob> work.

 Bob>   dchroot -d firefox

 Bob> Bob