Gentoo.
christopher downs
cdowns at drippingdead.com
Thu May 22 17:11:52 CDT 2003
That has to be the best chroot human compare I possible have ever read /
seen or heard ! hehehe man im loving it.
~!>D
Duane Attaway wrote:
>On Thu, 22 May 2003, Chris Wagner wrote:
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>>First of all, what is chroot and do I have to do it if I install the
>>stage3 tarball?
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>chroot is simply taking a currently running linux shell and dropping it
>into a new filesystem. Kind of like a brain transplant into a new body.
>You still have the same terminal interface, but your hands and feet are
>the new and improved limbs of a bigger and better beast.
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>>The docs said that you didn't need to do an emerge rsync with the
>>install since the stage3 tarball included the portage tree, whatever
>>that is. I guessed that it was the directory structure, but wasn't
>>completely clear on that.
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>The purpose of the stage three tarball is to have the whole house set up
>for you, rather that just the blueprint and an empty lot as in stage1.
>The rsync command rebuilds a new source tree with the latest plans and
>bulldozes sections of your house that could be remodeled. If you just
>bought your brand new house, why tear it down before you moved in yet?
>Only the geeks in Hollywood would tear down a perfectly good 50 million
>dollar house before they move in the first day.
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>>I tried to follow the directions verbatim, but there just seemed to be
>>something that I wasn't following right. The docs took you through the
>>stage1 and stage2 installs, but I got lost in what was supposed to be
>>done for the stage3.
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>That's because the whole house is delivered to your lot in stage3. Not
>much to do. The postman just dumps the house off and leaves you with it.
>You have to figure out how to open the door and flip the light switches.
>Kind of strange if you came from the caves of Microsoft and never seen
>round wheels before, not to mention the machinery to build these houses.
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>>Consequently, I looked at the x86 install guide and it didn't look a
>>whole lot different from the ppc port, with a few exceptions, so I was
>>hoping someone here might be able to tip me off to where I went wrong.
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>They should be pretty much the same. Only the CPU instructions are
>changed along with the pinout of the hardware. But that's why we build
>most programs with higher level languages, to abstract those details. You
>won't know the difference until you dig for the hidden details...
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>Does that help?
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>--
>Programming C shells by the sea shore since 1994.
>http://dattaway.org
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