On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 04:51:24PM -0400, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 03:54:37PM -0400, tempforever wrote:
> > Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> > > I'm cross installing Devuan on a newly instaslled SSD. I've
> > > cross istalled successfully before, but ran into trouble this time
> > > trying to bñind mouning /dev.
> > What is "cross installing" ?
>
> Sorry I was not clearer. I'm using the system I'm on to install devuan
> on another disk by emeans of debootstrap. One reason to do so is that
> it wouid not interrupt my work. Another is that installing with the
> installer on a key brought me to the point that the installer said it
> would install efi on old disk. Since I feared this would make it
> unbootable, I panicked
>
> > >
> > > I'm told to bind mount /dev from my host system on top of /dev
> > > in the target system. I'm told to use this optiion is dangerous.
> > >
> > > A question. Is this bind mount in fact optional?
> > If you're chroot-ing into the target mount point, I believe this step is
> > required.
>
> As I thought. But saying it would be dangerous made me thing there
> might be an alternative.
>
> > >
> > > Another quetion: if not optinal what would be the comand? These don't
> > > work:
> > >

> > >     \# mount --rbind /dev dev/
> > >     \# mount --bind  /dev/ /mnt/devinst/dev
> > mount -o bind /dev /mnt/devinst/dev
> > mount -o bind /dev/pts /mnt/devinst/dev/pts

>
> I tried these. Did't work because it couldn't find mount point. But it
> exists:
>

>     # ls /mnt/devinst | grep dev
>     dev

>
> > > Yet another question: if dangerou would I better of using makedev to
> > > create device file for my new partitios and then bind mount them
> > > individually as normal?
> > I have no experience in this.  I don't foresee it as being dangerous.
>
> My hesitation was because of the work involved (9 partittions)

Here's how I do this:

cd my_chroot
mount -t devtmpfs dev dev
mount -t devpts devpts dev/pts
mount -t proc proc proc
mount -t sysfs sys sys

Remember to umount those when done.

Greg


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