[aklug] Re: NetBSD on Cobalts

From: Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
Date: Sun Sep 12 2010 - 01:04:07 AKDT

No, what was suggested is 'chroot'. I didn't come up with it, someone
else did. Maybe 'root' is what they meant.

Don't know that I'll bother to try mounting the BSD drive with a linux
box, for this. I have a BSD box available for this.

On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 22:03 -0800, Royce Williams wrote:
> 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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