mounted Operating System

sailu_mvn · 10-16-2005, 11:12 PM

Hi,
I have Dual Boot.... Both are Linux.
I have sorted out the dependencies problem in one OS so that I can build any damn RPM.....And now, I work in other OS,that means Can i use that OS mounting this one?
I mean If I am in X, can i use the system resources of Y?
How?

Oliv' · 10-17-2005, 02:15 AM

Hi,

Of course you can

chroot command is done for that

Oliv'

sailu_mvn · 10-17-2005, 03:08 AM

Can u be more clear
chroot man page is not that clear
In between i will look for some other examples

Oliv' · 10-17-2005, 03:55 AM

Well in fact that's quite simple to use... Imagine that your other system, a redhat for example is mounted as /mnt/redhat... if you do /mnt/redhat/usr/bin/mozilla, it may complain 'cause it does not find the suitable libraries or things like that... Well simply do:

Code:

chroot /mnt/redhat

... Now in your shell where you have ran chroot, the new root dir is not / but /mnt/redhat, so if you do "mozilla" it will exec mozilla from your non booted OS and should run fine

Hope I'm clear enough

Oliv'

sailu_mvn · 10-17-2005, 04:39 AM

That was so helpful
Thank you so much