[Techtalk] chroot environment

[Gwen Morse]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Pat Day <patday at sunbirdsystems.net> wrote:
> On 12/8/10 12:44 PM, Wim De Smet wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Gwen Morse<gwen.morse at gmail.com>  wrote:

>>> I'm on Fedora 13 using KDE and I've installed mock and installed the
>>> base 386 package for Fedora 12, as well as yum, gnome, and a few
>>> libraries the emulator needs. (it seemed easier to use different
>>> versions of everything to help keep it all straight). But, I don't
>>> really understand what the chroot environment *is*.
>>>
>
> I fully understand wanting to understand, rather than blindly follow,
> knowing I could Really bork things.  So I'd like to elaborate on Wim's
> accounting of chroot.  Because my distro is gentoo, it pretty much mandates
> I understand it or I'd never get the dang thing booted.  So, if you please,
> I will try to explain my experience.

> Hope this is helpful and didn't make it worse.
>
> --Pat

Thanks for the answers and the extra reading, it's very helpful! I
haven't gotten psx2 working yet, I was sidetracked by discovering Good
Old Games (gog) have a bunch of old Infinity Engine games (Baldur's
Gate, BG2, IWD, IWD2, Planescape Torment) on the cheap.

But, once I have a fully modded BGII running on both sides of the
dual-boot, I'll go back to setting up the chroot for psx2. :)