Gentoo.

[christopher downs]

That has to be the best chroot human compare I possible have ever read / 
seen or heard ! hehehe man im loving it.

~!>D

Duane Attaway wrote:

>On Thu, 22 May 2003, Chris Wagner wrote:
>
>  
>
>>First of all, what is chroot and do I have to do it if I install the
>>stage3 tarball?
>>    
>>
>
>chroot is simply taking a currently running linux shell and dropping it 
>into a new filesystem.  Kind of like a brain transplant into a new body.  
>You still have the same terminal interface, but your hands and feet are 
>the new and improved limbs of a bigger and better beast.
>
>  
>
>>The docs said that you didn't need to do an emerge rsync with the
>>install since the stage3 tarball included the portage tree, whatever
>>that is. I guessed that it was the directory structure, but wasn't
>>completely clear on that.
>>    
>>
>
>The purpose of the stage three tarball is to have the whole house set up 
>for you, rather that just the blueprint and an empty lot as in stage1.  
>The rsync command rebuilds a new source tree with the latest plans and 
>bulldozes sections of your house that could be remodeled.  If you just 
>bought your brand new house, why tear it down before you moved in yet?  
>Only the geeks in Hollywood would tear down a perfectly good 50 million 
>dollar house before they move in the first day.
>
>  
>
>>I tried to follow the directions verbatim, but there just seemed to be
>>something that I wasn't following right. The docs took you through the
>>stage1 and stage2 installs, but I got lost in what was supposed to be
>>done for the stage3.
>>    
>>
>
>That's because the whole house is delivered to your lot in stage3.  Not 
>much to do.  The postman just dumps the house off and leaves you with it.  
>You have to figure out how to open the door and flip the light switches.  
>Kind of strange if you came from the caves of Microsoft and never seen 
>round wheels before, not to mention the machinery to build these houses.
>
>  
>
>>Consequently, I looked at the x86 install guide and it didn't look a
>>whole lot different from the ppc port, with a few exceptions, so I was
>>hoping someone here might be able to tip me off to where I went wrong.
>>    
>>
>
>They should be pretty much the same.  Only the CPU instructions are
>changed along with the pinout of the hardware.  But that's why we build
>most programs with higher level languages, to abstract those details.  You 
>won't know the difference until you dig for the hidden details...
>
>Does that help?
>
>--
>Programming C shells by the sea shore since 1994.
>http://dattaway.org    
>
>
>
>
>  
>