How-to properly Chrooting into an Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial LTS Linux System

June 1st, 2016 by thelinuxevangelist

The Linux Tutorial Shows in Easy Steps How-to Chrooting with Networking into an Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus LTS i386/amd64 GNU/Linux System.

Chrooting consist in changing the root directory on a different partition from the Boot System.

Login as SuperUser
```
sudo su
```
Find the Target /dev/sdXN Drive
Look into the List of the Mounted devices with:
```
df -h
```
If You can Not to Find it then Try visually with GParted:
```
gparted
```
Eventually Unmount it with
```
umount /dev/sdXN
```
Mount the New Root Target Device
```
mount /dev/sdXN /mnt
```
Bind process information pseudo-filesystem
```
mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
```
Bind the Devices directory
```
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
```
Mount the Pseudoterminal Slave
```
mount -t devpts none /mnt/dev/pts
```
Bind sysfs Virtual File System
```
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
```
Bind the Temporary for the New Root
```
mount --bind /tmp /mnt/tmp
```

Copy the resolv.conf File

cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf

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