FC6 - Teaching A New Dog Old Tricks

[Leon Goldstein]

Leon Goldstein wrote:

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>>>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.)
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>Hmm, I must have had a senile moment, oops, "senior moment".   You don't 
>need to chroot to burn from Knoppix.
>I think I did use chroot to reinstall GRUB on a distro when the mbr got 
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>>>Could I  coax you into writing a little more detailed how-to?
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>>Sure, its actually simple.
>>0) Install whatever distro works well with WP8 
>>on 1 harddrive, with just a single / partition (nothing separate for /usr 
>>/home, etc) with the smallest / partition possible
>>1) Once you're 
>>comfortable that WP8 works fine there, either connect a 2nd HD to the WP8 
>>system that is at least as large as the first, or make sure that the WP8 
>>system is networked to whatever other system you want to ultimately use 
>>(such as the one with FC6).  What you need to do here is use dd to take an 
>>image of the WP8 / partition and either write that image as a file to the 
>>2nd HD.  Or use the FC6 system as NFS server, mount it from the WP8 box, 
>>and then dd the image to the NFS server
>>2) So for the dd command you'd do:
>>dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/nfs-mountpoint/wp8.img bs=10k
>>3) Then once you've got the wp8.img on the target system (FC6), you just 
>>mount it over loopback:
>>mount -o loop wp8.img /mnt/wherever
>>4) chroot into it:
>>chroot /mnt/wherever
>>5) and run wp8
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>>I've done this before for a project at $DAYJOB which required me to use 
>>SuSE-10.1 for a single task, once/month.  I was sick of maintaining a 
>>system just for 15 minutes worth of work once a month, so I just imaged 
>>the drive, dumped it on my primary system (which has FC6), and now life is 
>>easier.
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Lonnie:

I reinstalled FC6 in a larger partition, then made a minimal install of 
Libranet 2.8.1 (very WP friendly) on the same lab-rat.  Per 
instructions, I used dd to copy an image of the Lib 2.8.1 partition, 
into which I istalled both WP8.1 as well as WPO2KL, with printers set up 
and verified as functional.

After mounting the image file and chroot to the mounted image, I get 
this error when I try to run WP (/usr/bin/xwp):
X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=2

Is this THE END, or is  something missing?

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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