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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:13:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: possibly hair-brained emulation method
Message-ID:  <200008311813.LAA98864@whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008311703.NAA39622@blackhelicopters.org> from Michael Lucas at "Aug 31, 2000 01:03:34 pm"

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Michael Lucas writes:
| So, I'm getting a new laptop with a 12-gig drive.
| 
| The downside is, I need to dedicate a couple gigs to a Linux system.
| 
| Is it possible to mount a Linux partition as /compat/linux, and use
| the Linuxulator over it?  Has anyone done this?  Am I just walking
| into a world of hurt, and should just do it via ports?  Surely
| someone's tried this hairbrained scheme before... it seems too
| obvious.

I do this sort of.  I don't mount a Linux partition but I have a Linux
mount point for netbooting.  I also do a chroot into this mounted at
/compat/linux.  The tricks I've done is to mount the hosts /dev ontop
of the linux /compat/linux/dev and use linuxprocfs for /compat/linux/procfs.
Then for sanity I do tmp as well.  Then things basically just work.
I use NFS for the mounts.  Then when I netboot these overlays aren't
seen in the other machine.

Doug A.


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