Hello, João Pedro Malhado, le mar. 29 avril 2025 14:54:16 +0200, a ecrit: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 12:30:51AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > João, le sam. 15 mars 2025 13:17:40 +0000, a ecrit: > > > I am aware of mmdebstrap mentioned in this mailing list at the end of > > > last year, > > > which could work in the similar way to crosshurd, but I did not find > > > enough > > > information to be able to make it work for an installation on real > > > hardware. > > > > Johannes provided information on: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2024/12/msg00003.html > > I have tried to use mmdebstrap to install a hurd on a separate partition from > an > existing linux installation, but have not managed to make it work yet. > > For convenience I reproduce here the command posted by Johannes to generate a > pre-installed image file: > > mmdebstrap --variant=apt \ > > --include=passwd,debian-ports-archive-keyring,mmdebstrap,sysvinit-core,sysv-rc,e2fsprogs,libarchive13 > \ > --customize-hook='chroot "$1" > mmdebstrap --mode=chrootless --arch=hurd-i386 > > --include=sysvinit-core,sysv-rc,debian-ports-archive-keyring,gnumach-image-1-486 > --customize-hook="passwd --root=\"\$1\" --delete root" > --customize-hook="copy-out /boot/gnumach-1.8-486-up.gz > /hurd/exec.static /hurd/ext2fs.static /tmp" > --variant=apt unstable - > "deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unstable main" > "deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main" > | chroot "$1" /sbin/mkfs.ext2 -q -F -o hurd -I 128 -b 4096 -d - > /tmp/hurd.ext2 204800' \ > --customize-hook='copy-out /tmp/hurd.ext2 /tmp/gnumach-1.8-486-up.gz > /tmp/exec.static /tmp/ext2fs.static .' > unstable /dev/null > > What I think this is doing is creating a throwaway linux chroot and in that > creating a hurd chroot and making an ext2 image file out of it.
Yes. > Instead of making a file I would like to install into a mounted (or unmounted) > partition. You can copy the generated file over your block device. > But when trying to run mmdebstrap --mode=chrootless --format=directory > on the target ext2 partition mountpoint (an empty directory with just > lost+found) as a regular user but with writing permissions, mmdebstrap gives > an > error: > readdir() attempted on invalid dirhandle > > Is this a bug I should report? That surely looks like a bug. > Would anyone have an idea on how to make this work? By asking the mmdebstrap authors, not us? Samuel
