FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Notes

[JB]

Thank you both. I think your combined emails answer the question: FreeBSD is once again able to install Linux OSes inside jails, and the new process is described in the wiki.


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On Wednesday, November 4, 2020 4:00 AM, <freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 06:21:19 +0100
> From: Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
> To: JB freebsdlists.admin at protonmail.com
> Cc: JB via freebsd-questions freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Notes
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> On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:06:31 +0000, JB via freebsd-questions wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > The FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Release Notes states the following:
> > The jail(8) utility has been updated to allow running Linux?
> > in a jailed environment.
> > Does anyone know if there are more details available somewhere,
> > or does anyone know how that's different than the pre-12.2R
> > ability to run Debian or Devuan inside a jail?
>
> Are you refering to this one?
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> This page describes the steps required to configure
> Ubuntu-based Linux jail or chroot - a complete Linux
> userspace environment running on top of Linuxulator.
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> Source:
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> https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails
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> Polytropon
> Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 07:01:15 +0000
> From: Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
> To: JB freebsdlists.admin at protonmail.com
> Cc: JB via freebsd-questions freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE Notes
> Message-ID: 20201104070115.624813046a8166511b9bfbc4 at sohara.org
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> On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 22:06:31 +0000
> JB via freebsd-questions freebsd-questions at freebsd.org wrote:
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> > Does anyone know if there are more details available somewhere, or does
> > anyone know how that's different than the pre-12.2R ability to run Debian
> > or Devuan inside a jail?
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> Last time I went looking I couldn't find an available Linux
> install to run inside a jail, the ones that used to work are obsolete and
> there are no updated versions. ISTM a more accurate announcement might have
> been that sufficient catch-up with Linux has been achieved that it works
> again.
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> Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
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