[Hosting] Equipement donations and Inflow walk-through?

[Benjamin Reed]

Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney [alchemist.a.t.darkcanvas.com] wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 03:00:20PM -0500, Benjamin Reed spoke thusly:
> > ...and then do "chroot /opt/distros/redhat7" or whatever.
> 
> Nice. Very, very nice. Now, add some arches to it :
> 
> /x86/redhat7x
> /x86/debian-2.2
> /x86/...
> /alpha/debian-2.2
> /alpha/redhat7x
> /mips/debian-2.2
> /ppc/debian-2.2
> /ppc/yellowdog
> ...
> 
> we could chroot on each box & do it that way. Heck, if we had a second
> x86 box, I'd set up hurd too *grin*

Yup.  It works pretty well.  Make sure the hosting box has a 2.4
kernel, though, so you can do the multi-mount thing (you have to
mount /dev/pts and proc inside each tree, as well as any NFS mounts
if you have them).

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misconception, held by all truly stupid people. -- Kryten