chrooting

[Travis Newman]

Travis Newman wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to chroot into other distributions, and so 
> far I'm doing pretty well. I have Debain Sid (starting there because 
> that's where what little documentation I found was using) in /sid and I 
> can chroot into it and use it at the CLI til the cows come home. I have 
> my /etc/inittab set up so that vt6 is Sid, so I don't have to log in, 
> chroot, etc. It's already there. Now here's the weird part. GDM doesn't 
> work at all with Sid, though I can use startx (and get a 
> gnome-settings-daemon error every time). But if I kill gdm in Ubuntu, 
> startx in Sid, then restart GDM in Ubuntu, it automatically changes VTs 
> so that I can have them both going at once. I'm not sure if you can make 
> the startx command do this or not, but anyway... 

So yeah I figured out "startx -- :1" will start it on a new vt. I'd 
still like to achieve what I'm talking about below:

> What I'd like to do is 
> be able to start Ubuntu and let it start GDM, and be able to start the 
> Sid (or whatever) GDM or startx and have it go to another VT. Or 
> ideally, for Ubuntu's GDM to autostart on VT7, Sid's to autostart on 
> VT8, etc, but I don't know if that's possible. At this point, I'll 
> settle for having to start it manually. The documentation I was using 
> says this is possible, but I can't get it to work. Does anyone have any 
> insight into the situation? I'm looking to eventually tweak different 
> distros or versions of distros for different tasks and have them running 
> on different VTs maybe, but I'm really just trying to learn the 
> possibilities and tweak the crap out of my PC.
> 
> Here's the documentation I was talking about:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
> 
> And I apologize for those of you who are also on the forums and have 
> already read about this.
> 
> Travis
>