FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Leon Goldstein]

Net Llama! wrote:
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>An idea that no one has suggested, and might be the best long term 
>solution (unless you really enjoy hacking WP8 into place every time a new 
>distro comes out, or praying that the old crusty distro still works on 
>ancient hardware which might fail eventually anyway), is to use a chroot.
>
>Take your working filesystem image where WP8 works fine, and use dd to 
>create a fileystem image in a file.  Then you just move/put that 
>filesystem image in any other distro (FC6, SuSE-10.2, etc) , mount it over 
>loopback, chroot into the mount point, and run WP8.
>
>  
>
I have thought of something along those lines; installing an old Linux 
that is hospitable to WP along with a contemporary release.

I get most of what you suggest, although I'll have to research the 
meaning of "mount it over loopback"  since I have never done that.  (I 
have used chroot to salvage data from an unbootable drive onto a CD 
using Knoppix.)

Could I  coax you into writing a little more detailed how-to?

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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