Is it OK to emerge inside a chroot'd environment?

Vorlon

I'm running Debian, and want to build my Gentoo system while still running Debian. I want to chroot to my gentoo partition from Debian, and run emerge to build the new Gentoo system, while at the same time continuing to run Debian.

Does the running Debian system "corrupt" my gentoo build in any way? Do I have to boot to Gentoo in order to build gentoo.

For example, is this OK?:
1. Boot to Debian. Start KDE.
2. Open text window. Mount Gentoo partition
3. chroot to Gentoo partition
4. emerge xfree from the Gentoo chroot

If this works, it lets me continue to do productive work (goofing around, actually) on my computer while I build Gentoo.

Is it OK to do this, or does it corrupt something in the emerge process?
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puggy · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 5:53 pm Post subject:

It's fine to emerge inside chroot.

Puggy
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Vorlon · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 5:55 pm Post subject:

Woo Hoo! That means I can continue to putz around under Debian, and still do those looooooonnnnng compiles of kde, etc. Thanks!
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puggy · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 7:46 pm Post subject:

no problem
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drini · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 9:42 pm Post subject: I installed gentoo that way

NO problem
I went installing gentoo from a chroot inside debian
in fact you connect to interent thru debian
and chrooted gentoo will use it transparently

small catch:
in my case, large packages (like X) woudln't get to compile succesful inside the chroot
but since most of system stuff was already installed at that point I just rebooted into gentoo
(rememebr to setup grub before)
and iemerged X
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Naughtyus · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject:

I'm doing it from Knoppix right now. Got to love the linux

drini · Posted: Sun May 25, 2003 1:00 am Post subject: knoppix's nice

but knoppix is after all still debian

(the chroot thing isn't particular to debian you could as well do it from within mandrake or any distro you like)

I find knoppix quite slow when installed to hard drive (it's kde) any ideas why?
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