linux-only jail possible?

[Roman Divacky]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:59:49AM -0500, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2010 03:00:50 Roman Divacky wrote:
> > I succesfully ran chroot of linux environment on freebsd back in
> > 2007/2008. I firmly believe jail should work fine too
> 
> Good to know, thanks! Would you mind sharing some more details? (Off-list is 
> fine if you prefer.) Was it a more or less complete environment? What distro 
> / version of Linux?

I downloaded gentoo 2007 untarred it into /compat/linux and chroot /compat/linux /bin/bash

it just worked - nothing special was necessary

dont remember much details but I had no problems with that setup