Re: Best way to run X application inside chroot environment

From: Hue-Bond (responder_solo_en_el_grupo_at_yahoo.es)
Date: 10/31/04


Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:49:02 +0000 (UTC)

Tim Haynes, Sat20041030@11:41:49(CEST):
> Jes=FAs =C1ngel <jpozdom@ribera.tel.uva.es> writes:
>
>> 3. Mount the tmp partition inside the chroot
>> (inside the chroot) # mount /dev/hda3 /tmp
>
> You should not rely on being able to mount anything within a chroot jail;

Perhaps the fs could be mounted from outside the chroot, at boot time.

-- 
 Hue-Bond


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