Le 02/12/2025 à 21:55, tito via Dng a écrit :
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2025 07:13:55 +1100
> terryc <terryc@???> wrote:
>
>> Due to a few recent boxen failures, I need to repair my mailer, which
>> has to be carried out by the old sneaker-net to move required packages
>> onto a cloned mailer. Hence my request in the subject.
>>
>> The back story is I cloned my mailer running on spining rust to a nvme
>> just under a year ago as a backup/recovery method, but my cloning method
>> was insufficient for a smooth boot up and now I need to
>> repair it. The boot up is missing the bit that creates all those
>> 'recent' systems like /proc /sys and others(?).
>>
>> ~20 years of just installing Debian/Devuan ontonewish hardware means
>> I've forgotten all that knowledge of patching systems to tweak a bit
>> more life out of them. Also, the nvme contains the only copy of the
>> knowledge of aliases and access files for sendmail.
>>
>> Either my web-fu is also badly shot now, but the urls from search
>> engines are trash and if this is the "knowledge" that AI engines are
>> built on, all is explained.
>>
>> TIA.
>> terryc
> Hi.
> what I would do absolutely untested:
>
> 1) create a clone (with dd ?) of the nvme to another disk for experimenting
> 2) boot the system with the devuan/debian live cd or installer
> 3) open a shell
> 4) mount the nvme to a directory e.g. /mnt
> 5) bind mount /proc to /mnt/proc, /sys to /mnt/sys, /dev to /mnt/dev (did I forget some?)

   Maybe /dev/pts .. not sure it's necessary.

--     Didier