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Creating a chroot Environment for Mageia

Creating CHROOT Environment Mageia documents (link below) tell us how to set up a chroot environment in their Wiki . We'll set up both a 32-bit and a 64-bit environment for the current release as well as the development branch, Cauldron, and eventually use them with schroot, a tool that makes managing chrooted environments much, much easier. To summarize the steps to create a chroot using urpmi as follows: Create a Mount Point To create the mountpoint for the chroot environment for either or both 32- and 64-bit environments as well as Cauldron: # mkdir -p /mnt/chroot/mageia32 # mkdir -p /mnr/chroot/mageia64 # mkdir -p /mnt/chroot/cauldron32 # mkdir -p /mnt/chroot/cauldron64 Mageia can use either package set with your native urpmi application to install packages in the chrooted environment. 32-bit chroot For the 32-bit environment: Add the repositories. $ sudo urpmi.addmedia --distrib --urpmi-root /mnt/chroot/mageia32  --mirrorlist 'http://mirrors.mageia.or

Installing and Configuring a Mediawiki wiki on Mageia5

I started a MediaWiki wiki for my hobby, to serve as a convenient place to collect and centralize all the bits of information that I find scattered about the internet. Creating such a wiki can be a daunting task, but if broken down into small tasks, it can be done. The most difficulty I had was that there were no specific instructions for Mageia. The best general instructions I could find were from the Mediawiki site, but were  for Ubuntu . Mageia configures its default configurations slightly different. I chose to tun the wiki and its associated webserver and database in a virtual machinate using VirtualBox, so we can tackle that first assuming that you already know how install and configure VirtualBox. Installing A Minimal Mageia Base During the installation, deselect all the pre-configured options, but do select the option to select individual packages. You will select a minimal install with no X11 or documentation, but with urpmi . The remaining installation is pret