Hi Mike, On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:47:56AM -0500, Mike Martin wrote: > I'm (still) trying to install Debian on an SGI Octane. Unfortunately,
I have it already running :-) > I can't Netboot. I can however boot using Gentoo's Live X-RC6 disk. I do not have a CD-ROM and used netbooting to set it up. Why can't you Netboot? > I've tried following the instructions for using debootstrap manually, > however I can't properly unpack the archive. The problem is that the > system is running from a Live CD and thus most of the tree (/usr, > /bin, /sbin, /opt, /lib, /boot) is symlinked to a read-only > filesystem. Is there any way to unpack the archive somewhere else > (/tmp?) and still have it function? Mmh. First of all I remember that I had to crosscompile pkgdetails.c (#398977). Probably you don't need this if you can use Perl from the live system. The next step I performed was to unpack the debootstrap Debian package into my home directory in the ramdisk. I did it via ar and tar but you can probably also use some dpkg* tools in Gentoo. To install Debian you have to pass the directory into which you want to install the system as argument. It should not write to somewhere else. I needed also to set a debootstrap specific environment variable (DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR or similar, see the installed script files for details). Please give a few more details about failures. debootstrap is a very very fragile tool ... Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
