On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Ravi Chemudugunta wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have had a lot of trouble just even getting started, my efforts have > so far been unsucessful, and I am hoping that posting here, someone > will be able to tell me what I am doing wrong. I have access to a > Ubuntu Gutsy Machine; so I strapped Debian Etch, mounted the proc file > system, bind mounted the dev filesystem and chrooted into the system. > > apt-get install emdebian-tools > > package not found, hmm ... so I checked the /etc/apt/sources.list, it > looked ok - I added the US mirror just to be on the safe side, tried > again! it didn't work ... > > Somewhere else on the wiki, there is a mention of using sid, so I try > to strap sid, it gets broken halfway - I figure here is something > wrong upstream, so strapped etch again, went into the apt/sources.list > and changed etch to sid (good idea?) I did a apt-get update, and > emdebian-tools shows up in the cache (is this normal ? emdebian-tools > only existing in the sid repositories). > > It did a whole lot of updates, and added the emdebian uk mirrors, it > seemed fine but something else went wrong :( and I quit the chroot as > it was getting late; somehow all of the updates seemed to have > affected the running kernel through the proc file system and I > couldn't umount the previously mounted proc and dev, so I ended up > restarting. > > I was wondering if there's a online emdebian 'playground' that I can > use to try some simple things like cross compiling packages (pruning > dependencies, removing documentation etc.) ? > > (btw lurking in the chatrooms, there seems to be no one alive =) > > cheers, > > ravi
Well I am also a newbie to emdebian, and have a working set of tools up and running. I am running real Debian-sid, so that may be the reason I am not hitting the kind of problems you hint at. Knowing the problems might help in solving them. And yes, I use UK mirrors. The have successfully build all the packages needed for i386 base-file, except gnupg, which fails in configure with what looks like a compiler problem. I am building my own repository so that I can build a root file system. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
