Thread: [Debian] Running Debian in a chroot
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2008-07-29 , 16:26
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#265
Originally Posted by qole View Post
I would welcome someone from the bootable Debian camp having a go at making the chroot scripts (/sbin/debian especially) completely "bootable Debian beta4 friendly". I want to be able to chroot into a bootable partition without damaging it in any way.

I especially would like to find an elegant way to make sure that the root and user accounts are aligned with maemo upon chrooting without trashing any extra accounts (such as the mpd user from beta3).
I will try this as soon as I get a stable Beta4 setup and running. In all honesty it shouldn't be too hard.. biggest problem will be users, like you mention, because the new installer creates the users at install time and the UID/GID's are now totally different than the default maemo.. where-as in beta3 most all the accounts were the same except a few were missing and there was 2 unneccesary accounts with different UID's.

Now the actual chroot/iceWM launching shouldn't be a problem.. the only issues I really see is maybe dbus related for permissions, or sharing files between the maemo and the debian side; because of permissions.
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