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Old 04-08-2008
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i m working on a project of making linux boot and run from a pendrive.
I have got a minimal root filesystem with busybox.
I wish to install X Server now. I downloaded the source tar balls, untarred them on the host system, used the default host.def issued commands

$make WORLDOPTS=-k World >& World.log (make World was giving error abt GL so i ignored it)
$make -k install DESTDIR=<path of pendrive>/usr

but the X command in <pendrive>/usr/X11R6/bin shows a broken link to XFree86 server.

Also could anyone help me out as to how to instal tiny X server and what shoud i include in host.def.
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switch_root

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)