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On 08.12.2018 8:36, rhkramer@gmail.com
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You are over-complicating things. You can build chroot in just a separate folder using debootstrap.This is sort of a continuation of the thread started with the post "Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?" (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/12/msg00144.html) Aside: the programmer has been able to send me a binary which does work on my Jessie system, but, never-the-less, I plan to start experimenting with either a chroot or VM environment to run either sid or a recent Ubuntu release so that I can compile / build the binary myself. The machine I want to do this on does not have any unallocated partitions / disk space. There are two partitions, currently used for other purposes, that I could free up to use for the chroot (or, later, VM) by moving files around. The Question: One of the partitions I could free up is 16 GB, the other is 54 GB -- I'd rather free up and use the smaller one, but I'm wondering if that will be big enough? chroot is not fully fledged VM in meaning of hardware abstraction. It is just a way to make files (executables, libraries, settings) inside a folder "/opt/chroot-sid-amd64/" *believe* they are in "/". So if you change some settings inside chroot "/etc/" they will actually be changed in "/opt/chroot-sid-amd64/etc/". This is why chroot is convenient to try things, install tons of -dev and dependency packages without cluttering or breaking actual working system. I recommend to read manuals for "debootstrap" and also "schroot" can make creating multiple chroot-ed environments more straight forward, eliminating the need to setup some settings manually, such as bind mount system partitions like "/sys" into chroot. -- With kindest regards, Alexander. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ |