[aklug] Re: NetBSD on Cobalts

I think that you just mean that you intend to 'root' the box, not
'chroot' it (which is something else). :-)

Hmm ... and now that you say this, I'd bet you're right, and the
filesystem is at least editable from another system. I'll have to give
that a shot, too, sometime.

Royce

Jim Gribbin said, on 09/11/2010 09:55 PM:
> Someone suggested I chroot into my Qube install to check it out. My
> first thought was, "Naw, I'd need another mips box to do that."
>
> Now I'm wondering ... Is it possible to chroot across architectures? Is
> it possible to mount a BSD drive w/ a Linux box?
>
> I really think I just need to edit rc.conf and comment out the webmin
> line to boot the box again. I think just a straight mount should enable
> that much.
>
> This brings something else to mind. It may be kind of pointless to put
> anything "new" on this if I don't even have the resources available to
> boot it with this little bit running. One of the reasons I chose NetBSD
> is that it appeared, to me anyway, to be the least resource dependent
> install I could find for this architecture.
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Received on Sat Sep 11 22:03:27 2010