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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:36:23AM +0100, Tim Squires wrote:
> The first try of a rebuild fell over when trying to access the device
> for my root partition directly.... i.e.
you may want to do the following two mounts (bindings)
mount -o vind /dev/ /chrootdir/dev
mount -o bind /proc/ /chrootdir/proc

you may also want to do that with /devices if you want, or just run devfsd 
mounted in the right place. 


> 
> /dev/ide/host0/disk0/part5  or something similar
> 
> and that device file is not available when running RH with the SM being
> used via chroot.
> 
> I'm not sure why but I tried it again and it ran all the way through
> without trying to access the deivce files.
> 
> The sorcery update command then started with 
> 
> <snip>
> root@tims:/var/lib/sorcery# sorcery update
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
> </snip>
> 
> full output below...
> 
> So it wants the /proc mounted that is not available when chrooted but
> still runs through OK?  Should there be more to an update than the
> output below?
> 
> Why is the output:
> 
> line 1068: /var/log/sorcery/activity: Is a directory
> 
> being seen any any cast, update or rebuild?
> 
> Has anyone enough spare time to answer all my questions or an I just
> being a pain?
> 
> Thanks for any time you can spare an inquisitive soul.
> 
> 
> 
> Full output of update.....
> 
> 
> root@tims:/var/lib/sorcery# sorcery update
> Error: /proc must be mounted
>   To mount /proc at boot you need an /etc/fstab line like:
>       /proc   /proc   proc    defaults
>   In the meantime, mount /proc /proc -t proc
> --07:00:59-- 
> http://codex.sourcemage.org/stable-grimoire/sorcery.tar.bz2
>            => `sorcery.tar.bz2'
> Resolving codex.sourcemage.org... done.
> Connecting to codex.sourcemage.org[152.2.210.81]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 781,354 [application/x-tar]
> 
> 100%[=================================================>] 781,354      
> 17.86K/s    ETA 00:00
> 
> utime(sorcery.tar.bz2): No such file or directory
> 07:01:42 (17.86 KB/s) - `sorcery.tar.bz2' saved [781354/781354]
> 
> mv: cannot stat `sorcery.tar.bz2': No such file or directory
> --07:01:43--  http://www.smee.org/smgl/stable/sorcery.tar.bz2
>            => `sorcery.tar.bz2'
> Resolving www.smee.org... done.
> Connecting to www.smee.org[195.184.244.187]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 781,354 [application/x-tar]
> 
> 100%[=================================================>] 781,354      
> 22.84K/s    ETA 00:00
> 
> 07:02:17 (22.84 KB/s) - `sorcery.tar.bz2' saved [781354/781354]
> 
> /usr/sbin/summon: line 1068: /var/log/sorcery/activity: Is a directory
> /tmp/casting.6045.7697: line 1068: /var/log/sorcery/activity: Is a
> directory
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 07:46, Tim Squires wrote:
> > Hello again,
> > 
> > I use my desktop all day to for Java development.  I've install a couple
> > of other computers with SM and would like it on my main machine. 
> > There's a spare ext3 partition of 20G's which now has Source Mage
> > installed.
> > 
> > Can anyone see a problem with booting into my usual RH7.3 and running
> > cast and sorcery commands chrooted to the Source Mage partition?
> > 
> > e.g.
> > 
> > mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
> > chroot /mnt /bin/bash
> > sorcery rebuild
> > 
> > It seems to be churning away quite happily in the background as I
> > continue programming.  Just waiting for the rebuild to do something
> > err... interesting to my stable (read boring) RedHat installation.
> > 
> > Ta,
> > Tim.
> > 
> > 
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