Using chroot

Summary:

brick-safe solution to use Debian Testing

Using chroot

(account deleted) 14 May 2013 07:34

Hi! I want to tell how to install full-blown Debian Testing distro to MBL with no interference with current firmware. You may upgrade firmware at any time without loosing installed Debian Testing.

Optional, you may install minidlna and/or transmission during installation by answering "y" to appropriate questions.

This is an "sandbox" where you can install/remove/configure anything you want with no harm to the firmware! As for me, I'm using tvheadend to record IPTV, apcupsd to shutdown MBL gracefully on power failure, btsync and transmission for P2P file exchange.

Installation is quite simple:

wget httр://mbl-common.googlecode.cоm/svn/chroot-install/install.sh
sh ./install.sh

(type URL manually, as a newbie I'm not allowed to post links.)

Using
Chosen chroot'ed services will be started on boot time, you may start it manually by:

/etc/init.d/chroot_debian.sh start

To enter to Debian Testing type:

chroot /DataVolume/debian

To exit from Debian Testing:

exit

To start a new service from Debian Tesing on the boot time install and configure it in chroot'ed Debian and add service name to /DataVolume/debian/chroot-services.list

To stop chroot'ed services type:

/etc/init.d/chroot_debian.sh stop

To restore chroot'ed services autostart after firmware update:

/DataVolume/debian/chroot_debian.sh install

To remove all traces of Debian Testing installation type:

/etc/init.d/chroot_debian.sh stop
/etc/init.d/chroot_debian.sh remove

reboot MBL and remove it's files:

rm -fr /DataVolume/debian/

Regards, Alexander Ryzhov

Last edited on 14 May 2013 09:22 by (account deleted) Show more

Re: Using chroot

nfodiz 28 May 2013 16:50

Nice post! Works like a champ