[rock-devel] Rock-Installation in parallel

[Chris Efant]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 17:55, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

> I feared that the explanation is bad. I don't want to use/build/..
> RockLinux under another distribution - just install it (and then use it
> via a chroot-shell or similar and/or boot into it eventually).

I do this regularly. I have a partition mounted as /mnt/rock-dev.  To
install, what I do is this:

mine -i -v -R /mnt/rock-dev <path_to_gems>/*.gem
chroot /mnt/rock-dev /bin/bash --login
mount /dev
mount /proc
ldconfig
for I in /etc/cron.daily/*; do $I; done
stone  # Then configure everything properly

>From there you can test things out, add users, set/change passwords,
configure everything, etc.

For testing X apps, VNC comes in handy.

"su" into some user and run "vncserver."  It will ask to set up a
password, enter it twice.

After VNC runs, kill it with 'vncserver -kill :1'.

Modify "~/.vnc/xstartup" and get rid of the xterm and twm lines, and
replace it with "startkde" or "gnome-session" (unless you want to use
xterm and twm).

Restart VNC with something like "vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -depth
16".

>From your main system log into it on the with either "vncviewer" or
KDE's "krdc" (Remote Desktop Client, part of kdenetwork).

Here's a screenshot of me chrooted in a build of 2.0.0 running KDE 3.2
under my 3.1 desktop: http://www.sirkull.org/screenshots/screen.png.


Hope that helps.