From: marc@none.of.your.business   
      
   On 10/29/25 23:05, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > 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}   
      
   I regularly use Mageia, they have an exellent wiki-documentation page:   
      
   wiki.mageia.org/en/Main_Page   
      
   For newcomers there's a special documentation wiki:   
      
   https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Newcomers_start_here   
      
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