On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:14:51PM -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote: > Hi all, > > I have my test system setup on a partition along side my normal use > FC4 install. The partition gets mounted in FC4, and I found I could > do some stuff in the FC5T2 (Rawhide) environment (eg rpm -q stuff) by > chrooting into the FC5 partition. What I do not know is what all I > can successfully do in the chroot environment and what things should > be done to get a more fully working test system running in chroot (eg, > /dev/ is basically empty). Specifically, it would be nice to do a yum > update from within the chroot so I don't have to reboot to the Rawhide > install, update, wait forever for updates to download and install > since I have not updated in a while, reboot to the new kernel, etc. > Can this sort of thing be done safely (correctly) from within the > chroot? Can I do stuff like start up udev so I can access hardware? mount --bind is your friend ;) Do it for /dev, /proc, /sys and /tmp and you should be able to run X apps, too. Regards, -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl> Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list