On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 04:53:14PM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:
> My preference foro such testing is to use debootstrap, to create a
> filesystem that I can chroot into. With excalibur's debootstrap, I
> would do:

Thanks Ralph. Normally I would do the same if I don't need a full
system with GUI. In this case, doing a chroot based install raises the
following problems:

1. I don't get a full sysvinit boot up. I have to start everything I
need by hand, and I'll probably still be missing stuff that should be started.

2. The host system already has a apache and postfix bound to
localhost, so in a chroot I'd have to play with changing TCP ports,
maybe more.

3. I'll need the mate desktop with firefox, and I'm not sure I can
simply do startx in a chroot, and have that going. Granted, I can
start firefox on the host system, but that still means messing with
TCP ports.

So, to rephrase my question, is the process I described the best way
to install Ceres in a virtual machine? Thanks.

Greg


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