From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Aug 31 11:15: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61C037B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA34927; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:13:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA98864; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200008311813.LAA98864@whistle.com> Subject: Re: possibly hair-brained emulation method In-Reply-To: <200008311703.NAA39622@blackhelicopters.org> from Michael Lucas at "Aug 31, 2000 01:03:34 pm" To: Michael Lucas Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message