> On 27 Nov 2016, at 18:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Kieron! > >> On 11/27/2016 04:10 PM, Kieron Gillespie wrote: >> Nov 27 14:59:50 debootstrap: sh: apt_dest: unknown operand >> Nov 27 14:59:50 debootstrap: /usr/sbin/debootstrap: line 607: : Permission >> denied > > This look like a general issue in debian-installer, i.e. not specific to > sparc64. > > Looking at the source of debootstrap:607 [1], there is just a closing "if" > statement > at this line, so I don't really see where the "Permission denied" should come > from. > > My first guess was that it's related with the usr-merge which was by enabled > by default > on debootstrap recently, but I currently have no idea really.
Is this to a freshly-formatted partition, or one with a pre-existing /bin etc? I've seen issues running debootstrap on the latter before. Regards, James