On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:06 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 09:46 +0100, michael escribió: > > I am trying to install Debian Etch on a box that already has Fedora > > but when using debootstrap I get the message > > > > Installer error: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc > > proc /proc > > > > There are more details below but could somebody enlighten me as to > > its meaning and what's going wrong? Ta, M > > > > Details: Fedora fc7 box is Core2 Duo with LVM, make a new partition / > > debian_chroot, install debootstrap using yum, run debootstrap to > > install etch for arch amd64 using UK mirror. Installs/verifies many > > packages then gives above error. /var/log/messages is empty (!). > > > > What parameters are you passing to debootstrap? It should be something > like: > debootstrap etch /debian_chroot http://somemirror/debian > > If that's correct, you should make sure that you're running it as root > and the chroot binary is in PATH ('which chroot'). > > > If that doesn't help, please copy the exact error you're receiving. >
fedora$ sudo /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch amd64 etch /debian_chroot/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ The error was as above! And was the last thing the debootstrap issued. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

