Re: RedHat in Chroot

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Gudjon I. Gudjonsson:
> Hi
>    Has anyone installed RedHat in a Debian Chroot? That would be the
> perfect solution for me since I have some commercial software that for
> some !"#$%&/ reason does not follow any sensible file hierarchy
> standard. If I could install RedHat Enterprise 2 and 4 on the same
> Debian machine I would be very happy. The intention is to run
> everything later on Debian.
>    I know I have to install RedHat with its installer but has anyone tried
> using it with chroot?
>
> Thanks
> Gudjon
>
> Ps. I got a private answer to my earlier question. Please don't spend your
> time on it. I will send the solution to the list later today.

Hi Gudjon,

is it really necessary to run those applications in a chroot ? Why not using 
famous virtualbox or another virtualizer. So you could easily write your code 
and test it on a Debian-System (virtualised) and a RedHat-System, too on the 
same physical hardware. And the advantage: You will not interfere with your 
host system !

Virtualbox for example is running fast and stale, except you need to use 
64-bit applications.


Good luck !

Hans