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Michael Mortimore wrote: > Any reason you're not just booting from the server hard drive? Because I still need to use my PC with it's own setup, I don't want to change the servers boot config, and the server's HDD lacks things required for some of the hardware anyway. > I think you need to mount /proc to /mnt/server/proc and /dev to > /mnt/server/dev for some things to be happy in a chroot jail. Found it- http://slackworld.berlios.de/2007/chroot_howto.html Need to bind mount /dev first. > On 7/10/07, Simon Williams <systemparadox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello everyone. >> The motherboard on my server died a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I've been >> out of the country for the last couple of weeks so haven't been able to do >> anything until now. The idea is to get my PC to take over as server until I >> can repair or replace the mobo. I've taken the HDD out of the server and >> attached it to my PC, mounting the whole tree under /mnt/server. Originally >> I was going to installed apache, samba, etc onto my PC and copy the config >> files, but that's not really going to be practical (changing all the paths >> to have the prefix /mnt/server will take too long for starters). I've tried >> chrooting into /mnt/server and starting processes there, but for some reason >> they either refuse to start or say they have started and then don't show up. >> I would use UML, but don't want to have to mess with compiling another >> kernel. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html