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Any reason you're not just booting from the server hard drive? I think you need to mount /proc to /mnt/server/proc and /dev to /mnt/server/dev for some things to be happy in a chroot jail. On 7/10/07, Simon Williams <systemparadox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone. > The motherboard on my server died a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I've been > out of the country for the last couple of weeks so haven't been able to do > anything until now. The idea is to get my PC to take over as server until I > can repair or replace the mobo. I've taken the HDD out of the server and > attached it to my PC, mounting the whole tree under /mnt/server. Originally > I was going to installed apache, samba, etc onto my PC and copy the config > files, but that's not really going to be practical (changing all the paths > to have the prefix /mnt/server will take too long for starters). I've tried > chrooting into /mnt/server and starting processes there, but for some reason > they either refuse to start or say they have started and then don't show up. > I would use UML, but don't want to have to mess with compiling another > kernel. > > What am I missing? > > Thanks in advance > Simon > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html