[gobolinux-users] you can remove 99% of the legacy file system

Isaac Dupree isaacdupree at charter.net
Sun Oct 28 09:40:41 NZDT 2007


John Griessen wrote:
> mpb wrote:
>> On 10/23/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>>> NixOS website says that 'sh' is the only thing in /bin);
>> When I first started playing with Rootless, I used a created-by-hand
>> chroot environment.  I only added legacy file system files when they
>> were actually needed and there was no easy workaround.  I built the
>> GNU toolchain, Xorg, KDE, Firefox, and more in this chroot
>> environment.  In the end, I only had to add under 20 files to the
>> legacy file system.
>>
>> So you can remove 99% of the legacy file system without that much work.
> 
> 
> Is this something you will share?

yes, please tell what legacy files/directories you needed!

Isaac

P.S. (although I suspect it might be a bit more needed to boot and run 
from there, compared to just compiling in chroot environment -- unless 
you did that too)




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