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Re: chroot and ia32libs combined



On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 14:34 -0500, Seb wrote:
> I'm trying to create a chroot in a AMD64 Debian system, following a how-to
> posted from http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356.  However,
> I'm not comfortable messing with my main system config files (like
> /et/ld.so.conf), which the how-to suggests.  For other reasons, I also had
> the ia32-libs package installed, so I thought I could avoid messing my
> /etc/ld.so.conf and thought that the chroot should be able to use the
> libraries from ia32-libs.  I can see I already have the /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> link.  Is this sensible? if not, is there some alternative?

This is so you can use the 32-bit libraries in the 64-bit system.  It is
unnecessary if you do all your 32-bit stuff in the chroot.

> I'm also not sure about what and how things should mounts be specified in
> /etc/fstab.  The how-to above says to use this:
>
> /home /var/sid-386-chroot/home none bind 0 0
> /tmp /var/sid-386-chroot/tmp none bind 0 0
> proc /var/sid-386-chroot/proc proc defaults 0 0

This looks right to me; it is what I have done.

> I've been advised to also mount /etc read-only, in order to avoid copying
> files around (very error prone) to the chroot.  Other how-tos also
> recommend mounting /dev, so people are using very different ways to
> install a chroot.  Can somebody please suggest what the best method is?

I wouldn't mount /etc to the chroot, and /dev hasn't ever been
necessary.  Someone else needs to help out here...

In that HOWTO, _I_ would skip 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5.  The only changes I
make to the real system is to /etc/fstab.



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