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The chroot allows multiple installs on the one machine without rebooting! In this way you can then keep an older ``stable'' release that some applications might require, and run those applications as in:
sudo chroot /path/to/chroot /bin/sh
Set it up with (from http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot):
# cd /
# mkdir /sid-root
# debootstrap sid /sid-root http://ftp.debian.org/debian/
... watch it download the whole system
# echo "proc-sid /sid-root/proc proc none 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
# mount proc-sid /sid-root/proc -t proc
# cp /etc/hosts /sid-root/etc/hosts
# chroot /sid-root /bin/bash
# apt-setup # set-up /etc/apt/sources.list
# vi /etc/apt/sources.list # point the source to unstable
# dselect # you may use aptitude, install mc and vim :-)
I tried with a local mirror but failed:
# debootstrap sid /sid-root http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/
I: Retrieving http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/g/
glibc/libc6_2.3.2-4_i386.deb
E: Couldn't download libc6
