Within Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), it is possible to mount partitions like /home, /etc, /lib from another Linux machine and bind them to /proc /sys /tmp to the host's to actually take control of the mounted non-booted linux system. i.e using the other one as host.
This can be done with mount -bind bla bla bla
and the chroot command.
The question is, is it possible to do this within Mac OS X as host?
With this we could forget fink and macports and have a completely debian distro working on Mac OS X.
Any ideas to achieve this?