Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > I suspect the first is closer to my mental image. Did you use > debootstrap with --variant=minbase, grml-debootstrap with --nopackages, > OR something else? For the first to work, I just copy the boot directory to the card/usb stick and make it bootable (grub install). The

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 03:58 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 14:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: What are the trade-offs of choosing between debootstrap and grml-debootstap? I understand that eit

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 14:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > What are the trade-offs of choosing between debootstrap and > > > grml-debootstap? > > > I understand that either way I h

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 02:32 PM, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: Could you skip all that and use something like busybox or buildroot? I hadn't recalled either at the moment. Busybox might have an edge as it in the Debian repository {and I even have it installed - will have to investigate why I installed i

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
Could you skip all that and use something like busybox or buildroot? On Sun, Apr 15, 2018, 3:20 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >> I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB flash drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. I currently use the i386 flavor of Stretch. My hardware allows choosing

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 12:30 PM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB flash drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. if you just want to boot in your system, then you take only the boot directory - this is the simplest way

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB flash > drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. > > I currently use the i386 flavor of Stretch. > My hardware allows choosing to boot from a flash drive. >

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB > flash drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. if you just want to boot in your system, then you take only the boot directory - this is the simplest way and less consuming space. I used such a

DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
I wish to do an _*EXTREMELY*_ minimalist install of Debian to a USB flash drive (aka /dev/sdb1) assuming use as a MBR device. I currently use the i386 flavor of Stretch. My hardware allows choosing to boot from a flash drive. I suspect that if using deboostrap the closest I can come is using "