Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:00:55
Message-Id: 1102310088.26495.7.camel@neuromancer.home.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo by "Gabriel M. Beddingfield"
1 On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:24, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
2 > On Sunday 05 December 2004 05:08 pm, you wrote:
3
4 > > [root@hei don]# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
5 > > [root@hei don]# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
6 > > bash-2.05b# env-update
7 > >
8 > > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
9 > >
10 > > bash-2.05b# source /etc/profile
11 > > hei / # cd /mnt/gentoo
12 > > bash: cd: /mnt/gentoo: No such file or directory
13 > > hei / # cd /gentoo
14 > > bash: cd: /gentoo: No such file or directory
15 > > hei / #
16 > What you are seeing is *not* an error. When you say
17 > 'chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash' the computer *essentially* does this:
18 >
19 > 1. cd /mnt/gentoo
20 > 2. make /mnt/gentoo to be /
21 > 3. Run bash as the shell... as if you had booted into gentoo
22 > with /mnt/gentoo as your root directory (/).
23 > 4. All this only effects the konsole session you are running.
24 >
25 > /mnt/gentoo will no longer exist. If it did exist, then it means you
26 > messed up.
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28 If you _really_ want to be sure, I can't remember, but if you got
29 virtual Termnal #2 (Alt-F2), and you've changed the root password, go to
30 Term #2, log in as root, and cd /mnt/gentoo. I betcha it's there. :-)
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32 Ps : Greets to Gabriel Beddingfield. (any relation to Daniel
33 Beddingfield?? hehe..)
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36 Ow Mun Heng
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