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Re: Chroot environment for 32 bit apps



On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 18:13 -0500, Seb wrote:
> Thanks for the reference and describing how you got it working.  I did in
> fact run across that site, but found it a bit contrived and hard to undo
> if the need arises.  Some more digging led me to a great suggestion in:
> 
> http://www.zapoyok.info/wordpress/2006/02/18/debian-amd64-creer-un-chroot-pour-executer-mplayer-openoffice-et-flash/
> 
> In french, but easily understandable.  I think it may solve the issues you
> were having with login.  The first comment at the end of it suggests using
> NIS with the 64 bit system as server and the chrooted environment as
> client.  The problem is: setting NIS is also quite hard for the
> inexperienced.  Anyway, thanks a lot for your input, I have some more
> elements now.

Oops, I notice I forgot about copying /etc/passwd, shadow, and group.  I
have installed the locales package as well.

Anyway, glad to help.



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