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  • 29th November 2006
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    Building a Gentoo and Debian chroot Environment

    If you’re wondering how to create a chroot environment in the first place while reading my previous post, then this post is for you. Gentoo: Download gentoo stage 3 installer wget http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/releases/x86/2006.1/stages/stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2 Create a chroot folder mkdir chroot-gentoo Extract it sudo tar xvjf stage3-i686-2006.1.tar.bz2 -C chroot-gentoo Mount proc and dev sudo mount -o bind /dev [...]

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  • 28th November 2006
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    Development Platform The chroot Way

    As opposed to some people, I prefer to use chroot rather than qemu ( or vmware, etc2, just name it) when doing my development, whenever possible. By this I don’t need to worry about damaging my system, and not having to deal with overheads introduced by virtualisation. What I use for the purpose are my [...]

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  • 8th November 2006
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    (Un)Expected downtime

    It has been a quiet but busy October that I was on a work trip to Sabah to bring up some wifi links over there. It’s quite a large scale implementation, and so expect me to be offline again I’m serious with this site, that even that were on an island that most people would [...]

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