Wednesday November 29, 2006 00:51

Building a Gentoo and Debian chroot Environment

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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 chroot-gentoo/dev
    sudo mount -o bind /proc chroot-gentoo/proc
  • And possibly some other directories too
  • sudo mount -bind /usr/portage chroot-gentoo/usr/portage
  • And that’s it, you can start chrooting now
  • sudo chroot chroot-gentoo /bin/bash
  • You might want to install some essential packages
  • emerge --sync
    emerge vim 
    
  • Exit when you're done
  • exit
  • Dont forget to unmount what you have mounted
  • sudo umount chroot-gentoo/dev chroot-gentoo/proc chroot-gentoo/usr/portage

You can have a debian chroot system too

  • Install essential package
  • as root

    echo "dev-util/debootstrap ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
    emerge debootstrap 
  • Populate your chroot folder using debootstrap
  • debootstrap sid chroot-debian http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/
  • Mount proc and dev
  • sudo mount -o bind /dev chroot-debian/dev
    sudo mount -o bind /proc chroot-debian/proc
  • Start chrooting now
  • sudo chroot chroot-debian /bin/bash
  • Install your favorite packages
  • apt-get update
    apt-get install <list your package here>
  • Exit once done playing with the chroot environment
  • exit
  • Clean up some mess
  • sudo umount chroot-debian/dev chroot-debian/proc

Just do whatever you wish with your chroot environment, and you can just delete the chroot folder when you realized that you messed up too much already.







2 Responses to Building a Gentoo and Debian chroot Environment

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December 11th, 2007 at 8:22 am

[...] of installing Debian or or Gentoo as what I basicly describe in my previous post, I’m gonna just install Voyage, a minimal Debian based distro customised for [...]

Talal

August 5th, 2010 at 7:23 pm

Wat do you mean by “Just do whatever you wish with your chroot environment, and you can just delete the chroot folder when you realized that you messed up too much already.”

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