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Post by michaelw on Nov 23, 2006 22:07:25 GMT 7
Hi all, A question from a linux newbie. I bought a n2100 a couple of weeks ago and have been reading all the stuff that you can do with it. On this page I found a way to run an other linux distro on the box: onbeat.dk/thecus/index.php/N2100_Debian_ChrootWonderful but what is a chroot anyway? If someone can guide me to an explanation I would appreciate it! Thanks, Mike
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Post by dbridges on Nov 24, 2006 4:34:24 GMT 7
In layman's terms...
It's a way of creating an isolated filesystem within another filesystem. The chroot'd filesystem cannot see it's parent filesystem and any processes running in that chroot'd environment cannot access or influence the parent filesystem.
As a newbie i recommend getting familiar with the existing linux distro on the box before moving up to the full Debian distro.
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Post by ryebank on Nov 24, 2006 8:34:30 GMT 7
What would be cool is if someone could find a way of booting N2100 off a front USB mounted disk if found (or if e.g. a certain file found there) otherwise boot the "normal" system. That way the new system could be loaded on a flash memory drive and if there were any problmes the N2100 could just be rebooted with the drive taken off the USB - clean and easy (and safe!)
So how about it Linux gurus?
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Post by michaelw on Nov 24, 2006 14:26:20 GMT 7
Hi dbridges Thank you so much for your answer. Your right of course, about the learning stuff. I just bought a book on getting started. I'll finish that one first.... I just never thought that Linux would be this much fun
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Post by dbridges on Nov 25, 2006 4:28:17 GMT 7
I just never thought that Linux would be this much fun It's fun up to the point where you break something that you cant fix and you realise that finding the info that you need is real hard because everything is written in geek speak. Anyway. Enjoy
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