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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Which flavour? Post 3780 by Andy Hibbins on Wednesday 11th of July 2001 10:18:55 AM
Old 07-11-2001
Hi,

Red Hat provide a pretty good Linux distribution although you'd probably be better off using Linux Mandrake if you're a complete beginner to Linux.

You can purchase Mandrake cds relatively cheaply at the following sites:

http://www.linux123.co.uk/
£10 for 5 cds

http://www.crazypenguin.co.uk/
£4.40 for Mandrake 8 double pack

I'm running FreeBSD, Mandrake 7.2 and Mandrake 8..0 at the moment.


Andy Hibbins Smilie
 

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SWITCH_ROOT(8)						       System Administration						    SWITCH_ROOT(8)

NAME
switch_root - switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree SYNOPSIS
switch_root [-hV] switch_root newroot init [arg...] DESCRIPTION
switch_root moves already mounted /proc, /dev, /sys and /run to newroot and makes newroot the new root filesystem and starts init process. WARNING: switch_root removes recursively all files and directories on the current root filesystem. OPTIONS
-h, --help Display help text and exit. -V, --version Display version information and exit. RETURN VALUE
switch_root returns 0 on success and 1 on failure. NOTES
switch_root will fail to function if newroot is not the root of a mount. If you want to switch root into a directory that does not meet this requirement then you can first use a bind-mounting trick to turn any directory into a mount point: mount --bind $DIR $DIR SEE ALSO
chroot(2), init(8), mkinitrd(8), mount(8) AUTHORS
Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> AVAILABILITY
The switch_root command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux June 2009 SWITCH_ROOT(8)
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