Can't mkinitrd on chroot system

2003-06-20 Thread Ross Boylan
I have been (mostly) following the instructions in section 3.7 of the woody installation manual to bootstrap a Debian system from a RH one. However, I have run into a problem. I tried to install a kernel (2.4.18-k7) and it needed an initrd. The mkinitrd fails with a complaint that it can't

Re: Can't mkinitrd on chroot system

2003-06-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what's going on is that, because I'm running chroot, /proc is not accessible. I mention this first, in case it might be relevant to the new installation procedures. Second, what can I do to get around this problem? Is there any problem with

Re: Can't mkinitrd on chroot system

2003-06-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:26, Herbert Xu wrote: Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what's going on is that, because I'm running chroot, /proc is not accessible. I mention this first, in case it might be relevant to the new installation procedures. Second, what can I do to

Re: Can't mkinitrd on chroot system

2003-06-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:55:23PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I have been (mostly) following the instructions in section 3.7 of the woody installation manual to bootstrap a Debian system from a RH one. However, I have run into a problem. I tried to install a kernel (2.4.18-k7) and it needed