XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:29:22 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > and there are a couple web sites that have the manual pages for   
   > Linux utilities of various sorts.   
      
    is one of the more comprehensive   
   collections.   
      
   > Some distros are known for the information they provide. The Arch   
   > Linux people have some general documentation which is good when you   
   > have a problem and need an overview.   
      
   Many’s the search that has led me to the Arch Linux Wiki   
   , which has been very helpful, even if I   
   don’t use Arch.   
      
   > When you build Gentoo from scratch, there is one chroot session in   
   > there, undoubtedly included so a user would know how to do it later.   
   > You can mount some foreign OS tree, and the environment pretends you   
   > are actually booted and running from that tree. You can update   
   > packages in the foreign tree, although the tree is not running at   
   > the time as a "real OS".   
      
   I have successfully done this with Debian systems. It gets errors   
   trying to restart nonexistent service processes, but otherwise it   
   seems to work.   
      
   Tip: to minimize errors with inability to get info about the running   
   hardware and kernel, try to make the chroot look more like a “real”   
   system before entry with   
      
       for d in dev proc sys; do mount --bind /$d /«path-to-chroot»/$d; done   
      
   then enter with e.g.   
      
       chroot /«path-to-chroot» /bin/bash   
      
   then undo the bind mounts after exiting with   
      
       umount /«path-to-chroot»/{dev,proc,sys}   
      
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