Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

way and less consuming space. I used such approach with very old 256MB SD card to boot raspberry that runs fon NFS root. if you want some minimal rescue disk debootstrap would work or some kind of minimalistic distro - as grub is almost everywhere the same. I checked SLAX recently - just dd the iso

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

with "bonkers". apt is Priority: important. Try removing it from any Debian system. For installing, your definition of "minimalist" is of no importance or consequence. > For my definitely idiosyncratic purposes *absolutely NOTHING* but grub > related tools will _ever_ be

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

I used such approach with very old 256MB SD card to boot raspberry that runs fon NFS root. if you want some minimal rescue disk debootstrap would work or some kind of minimalistic distro - as grub is almost everywhere the same. I checked SLAX recently - just dd the iso to usb and done. total size of

DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

"--variant=minbase" which apparently installs apt. My definition of "minimalist" would prefer not to. For my definitely idiosyncratic purposes *absolutely NOTHING* but grub related tools will _ever_ be run from this device. What are the trade-offs of choosing between

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

Debian initrd if it's forced to boot from > non-partitioned drive. > > My gut feeling is you can not force it to work unless you rebuild > initrd. > > >>>> I learn the method from the following website: >>>> >>>> https://www.collabora.com/news-and

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

ttps://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/01/16/setting-up-qemu-kvm-for-kernel-development/ > I'm genuinely surprised that such method worked for them. I have learned how to use busybox as basic environment. Is that any tutorial to show how to make debian debootstrap image as basic environment? > > Reco -- My best regards to you. No System Is Safe! Dongliang Mu

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

unless you rebuild initrd. > >> I learn the method from the following website: > >> > >> https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/01/16/setting-up-qemu-kvm-for-kernel-development/ > > I'm genuinely surprised that such method worked for them. > I have

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 19:07 +, 慕 冬亮 wrote: > Hi all, > > The image created by debootstrap does not work in the qemu [...] debootstrap doesn't create images, your script does - so that's where the bug is. Rather than trying to fix your script, why not try vmdebootstrap which is

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

On 22.09.2017 21:07, 慕 冬亮 wrote: > qemu-img create $IMG 5G > sudo mkfs.ext4 $IMG > qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.0-1-amd64 -hda > qemu-stretch.img -append "root=/dev/sda1 single" You have created an image without any partition table, so root should point to /dev/sda. And, as

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

Hi. On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 07:07:28PM +, 慕 冬亮 wrote: > qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.0-1-amd64 -hda > qemu-stretch.img -append "root=/dev/sda1 single" > > However, the result shows that

image created by debootstrap does not work

Hi all, The image created by debootstrap does not work in the qemu I use the following script to generate one image: IMG=qemu-stretch.img DIR=mount-point.dir #qemu-img create -f qcow2 $IMG 5G qemu-img create $IMG 5G sudo

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Curt wrote: On 2017-07-30, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Curt wrote: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.1.0+nonfree/ thanks Curt, I used this one and it worked perfectly, except

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

On 2017-07-30, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Curt wrote: > >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.1.0+nonfree/ >> > >thanks Curt, > I used this one and it worked perfectly, except the last step, i.e. grub >

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Steve McIntyre wrote: You don't say exactly which image you're using, but this is clearly a bug. I'm *guessing* you're using a 9.0.x live image? The 9.1.0 images should work better... you are right, it was 9.0, as 9.1 was not available when I did the download. anyway,

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Curt wrote: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.1.0+nonfree/ thanks Curt, I used this one and it worked perfectly, except the last step, i.e. grub install: It actually installed grub, but at reboot I don't get the grub menu,

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: >hi, >I'm trying to install Stretch on a Lenovo laptop with the KDE dvdrom and each >time I get >the error: > debootstrap error. Unable to find the codename for release > >I saw a lot of posts about this error, but they were all relat

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

On 29-07-17, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > > On 29-07-17, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > hi, > > > I'm trying to install Stretch on a Lenovo laptop with the KDE dvdrom and > > > each time I get the error: > > >

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

On 2017-07-29, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> >> Do not use live images for install. Those are bit flaky, especially KDE >> one. Use net install, or regular install image. >> > > thanks for this information. I can't use net install, as it would need 4 or > 5 firmware

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Dejan Jocic wrote: On 29-07-17, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I'm trying to install Stretch on a Lenovo laptop with the KDE dvdrom and each time I get the error: debootstrap error. Unable to find the codename for release I saw a lot of posts about this error, but they were

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

On 29-07-17, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I'm trying to install Stretch on a Lenovo laptop with the KDE dvdrom and > each time I get the error: > debootstrap error. Unable to find the codename for release > > I saw a lot of posts about this error, but they were all related t

debootstrap error with dvdrom install

hi, I'm trying to install Stretch on a Lenovo laptop with the KDE dvdrom and each time I get the error: debootstrap error. Unable to find the codename for release I saw a lot of posts about this error, but they were all related to a usb install, but one. This one said he left the install

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Thu 23 Feb 2017 at 08:21:43 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:10:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Learn to love apt-get. I does

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:21:43AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:10:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:21:43AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:10:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:10:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a > > > GUI can. YMMV ;! > > > >

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a GUI > > can. YMMV ;! > > aptitude is great on the command line. And does some things (but not all) >

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a GUI > > can. YMMV ;! > > aptitude is great on the

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a GUI > can. YMMV ;! aptitude is great on the command line. And does some things (but not all) more conveniently than apt-get. Besides, it is NOT a GUI application.

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Wednesday 22 February 2017 16:14:28 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > (GUI) packages such as aptitude Hey! aptitude has got a TUI, but *not* a GUI, and many of us run it on the command line. Lisi

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On 02/22/2017 10:14 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 2/22/17, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: On Qua, 22 Fev 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to use debootstrap to make a minimal but functional install of Debian to /dev/sda9. It did not create a line on the boo

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On 2/22/17, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: > On Qua, 22 Fev 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I wish to use debootstrap to make a minimal but functional install of >> Debian to /dev/sda9. >> >> It did not create a line on the boot me

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On 02/22/2017 08:31 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Qua, 22 Fev 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to use debootstrap to make a minimal but functional install of Debian to /dev/sda9. It did not create a line on the boot menu to run the Debian on /dev/sda9 . Nor it is expected

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

On Qua, 22 Fev 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to use debootstrap to make a minimal but functional install of Debian to /dev/sda9. It did not create a line on the boot menu to run the Debian on /dev/sda9 . Nor it is expected that it would. As reference [4] says "...your new syste

Attempt to run debootstrap

I have a machine with Debian Jessie {MATE DE} installed. I have a full set of Debian Jessie install DVDs. This machine has *NO* internet connectivity. I wish to use debootstrap to make a minimal but functional install of Debian to /dev/sda9. The available references include: [1] https

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, All :) > > Please forgive me if I have simply missed the memo where we bought > Ubuntu or Ubuntu bought Debian to where this is an appropriate move. > > So what had had happened was... I've been attempting to debo

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

> Hi, All :) > >> > > >> > Please forgive me if I have simply missed the memo where we bought > >> > Ubuntu or Ubuntu bought Debian to where this is an appropriate move. > >> > > >> > So what had had happened was... I've been attempting to de

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

issed the memo where we bought >> > Ubuntu or Ubuntu bought Debian to where this is an appropriate move. >> > >> > So what had had happened was... I've been attempting to debootstrap >> >> [...] >> No error message, no description what you di

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:11:39PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: [...] > I think you are obviously an Ubuntu supporter or fan. I'm with Cindy. It is > creeping insidiously. Please. Relax. It's not like Ubuntu was the enemy or something. Many a Debian

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

e existed simply to illustrate the fact that it is possible to install other distributions within Debian with debootstrap (they might have chosen Linux Mint or Fedora, I guess, to satisfy conspirationists such as yourself). The converse is equally true. What is it that is creeping? I'm not sure. Maybe it's t

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

this is an appropriate move. > > > > So what had had happened was... I've been attempting to debootstrap > > [...] > No error message, no description what you did.. > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap > > > > Toward the bottom of the page there... &g

Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 06:43:54PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Hi, All :) > > Please forgive me if I have simply missed the memo where we bought > Ubuntu or Ubuntu bought Debian to where this is an appropriate move. > > So what had had happened was... I've been attempt

*WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?

Hi, All :) Please forgive me if I have simply missed the memo where we bought Ubuntu or Ubuntu bought Debian to where this is an appropriate move. So what had had happened was... I've been attempting to debootstrap DEBIAN Stretch for a few weeks now. It's been failing MISERABLY

install debian via debootstrap sur zfs

bonjour, j'ai installé une version de FreeBSD11 (trueOS Desktop) et je souhaiterai installer debian via debootstrap dans un jail, malheureusement la doc contient des erreurs qui ne me permettent pas d'avancer plus en avant ... l'instruction qui bloque : zfs create fbsdzpool1/jailz/deb-master

Re: debootstrap mips jessie failure

Hi Sergey, I had the same problem recently in my case the problem was caused by a fs error because i did the debootstrap in a ntfs fs,(it caused a permission error). When i repeated the process in an ext4 partition the problem got solved. Hope it will be the same problem. On 02/05/16 07:05

Re: cross-debootstrap error

I had the exact same error when I did it with armel. The problem was I was using a ntfs filesystem as the base for the debootstrap, so i guess that caused a problem related to fs permissions. I did the process again in my root fs (ext4) and all went excelent. Thanks for your help. On 01/05

debootstrap mips jessie failure

httpredir.debian.org/debian/; ;; esac sudo su -c '\ mkdir -p '$target' && debootstrap --variant=buildd '"$debootstrap_extra_opts"' --include='$extra_packages' '$suit' '$target' '$mirror' && tee /etc/schroot/chroot.d/'$chroot_name'.conf >/dev/nul

Re: cross-debootstrap error

Christian Seiler wrote: > This is really weird, especially since /etc/os-release is owned by > base-files, so it should only be created when the package is installed, Yes, it is weird, but debootstrap has to put everything together, so if it has to put the symlink in place before unpackin

Re: cross-debootstrap error

e-files, so it should only be created when the package is installed, and it also shouldn't be a symbolic link but rather a regular file. I have a setup here where I can generate qemu-based chroots for building packages on multiple architectures, and that uses qemu-debootstrap internally. I just tried to b

cross-debootstrap error

debian_arm64_jessie/ /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage// //I: Keyring file not available at /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https mirror https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian// //I: Installing core packages...// //W: Failure trying to run: dpkg --force-depends --install

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey <mirko.part...@web.de> > wrote: > > > > > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > >> > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you > just > > >> >

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:43:48PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to > chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here. > > It worked. > Excellent! Thanks for the update.

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

> > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > >> > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > >> > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: > >> > > >&g

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On 5 February 2016 at 12:49, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey <mirko.part...@web.de> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> > I'm not s

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On 5 February 2016 at 12:30, Mirko Parthey <mirko.part...@web.de> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: > > 1. Make a mount point, say /mnt/ubuntu; > > 2. Mount th

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:49:59PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > This is good advice, and these steps can be automated with the schroot > package. > > For any non-trivial operations inside your guest systems, such as > installing packages or running daemons, I can recommend

using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

Dear Folks, I am asking a general question about using chroot etc. On my AMD box here I am running Debian stretch. But I also have ubuntu installed on the same disk and I think a third linux distribution installed on a second hard drive. If I wanted to mount e.g. the partition with ubuntu on

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

> > Comments and guidance appreciated. > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: 1. Make a mount point, say /mnt/ubuntu; 2. Mount the partition Ubuntu is on, e.g., ; 3. Change directory

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 02:26:24PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Bob Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:10:23PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate tool. I finding

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

On 2/20/15, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate tool. I finding that it will evidently give me not only the fine control and minimal footprint desired

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

-(Sue), because you've often talked about getting that debootstrap thing down to a fine art. to go back outside and finish things up for the night. It's starting to sleet and snow so I have chores that need completed (quick). After I come back in and settle, we could look at those two links (I

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 2/20/15, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate tool. [snip] My question -- Does anyone know of a detailed (newbie oriented) writeup

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:10:23PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate tool. I finding that it will evidently give me not only the fine control and minimal footprint desired

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

Bob Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 02:10:23PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate tool. I finding that it will evidently give me not only the fine control and minimal

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

On 2/20/15, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2015-02-20, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: My question -- Does anyone know of a detailed (newbie oriented) writeup on using debootstrap to install a bootable Debian to a second partition of a drive already containing a complete default

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

On 2/20/15, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate tool. I finding that it will evidently give me not only the fine control and minimal footprint desired

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

On 2015-02-20, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: My question -- Does anyone know of a detailed (newbie oriented) writeup on using debootstrap to install a bootable Debian to a second partition of a drive already containing a complete default install? All the writeups I've found

debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate tool. I finding that it will evidently give me not only the fine control and minimal footprint desired, but it leads me to explore areas of Debian that I know less

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

Joel Rees wrote: 2015/01/09 6:40 Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com: [...] As an aside and yet really directly related, my complaints and observations a while back about the seeming uptick in people having trouble with incompatibility became more clear in the last few weeks. There's

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

On Saturday 10 January 2015 15:25:02 Joel Rees wrote: stupid questions It has been said that there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 1/8/15, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I'm attempting to do some heavily customized installs. It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. While researching that I came across multistrap. The man pages and tutorials I've found so far demonstrate gaps in my

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

On 10/01/15 15:55, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2015 15:25:02 Joel Rees wrote: stupid questions It has been said that there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. The only stupid questions are rhetorical questions whose accurate answers are inconvenient to the

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

2015/01/09 6:40 Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com: [...] As an aside and yet really directly related, my complaints and observations a while back about the seeming uptick in people having trouble with incompatibility became more clear in the last few weeks. There's some what *FEELS

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

On 1/8/15, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I'm attempting to do some heavily customized installs. It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. While researching that I came across multistrap. The man pages and tutorials I've found so far demonstrate gaps in my background

_COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

I'm attempting to do some heavily customized installs. It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. While researching that I came across multistrap. The man pages and tutorials I've found so far demonstrate gaps in my background. The material I'm looking for would likely have been prepared

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

On Thu 08 Jan 2015 at 14:18:14 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm attempting to do some heavily customized installs. It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. While researching that I came across multistrap. The man pages and tutorials I've found so far demonstrate gaps in my background

Debootstrap and Multistrap - instructional material?

I attempting to do some heavily customized installs. It was suggested I investigate debootstrap. My initial attempts were only a partial success. While searching for more information I came across multistrap which appears more suitable for me. The man pages and tutorials I've found so far

Re: Chroot/Debootstrap Mechanisms (Was: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?)

terminology to use to ask.. Let me try it this way. If you're suddenly having a lot of compatibility problems, are you working out of a root hierarchy or instead out of something embedded via debootstrap or a similar alternative? For that matter, even if you're working out of a natural root hierarchy

Chroot/Debootstrap Mechanisms (Was: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?)

know the right terminology to use to ask.. Let me try it this way. If you're suddenly having a lot of compatibility problems, are you working out of a root hierarchy or instead out of something embedded via debootstrap or a similar alternative? For that matter, even if you're working out

Current references for debootstrap and multistrap ?

and 'to be installed' architectures will be the same. The references appearing to be appropriate include: Multistrap (last edited 2013-11-09 ) https://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap Debootstrap (last edited 2013-10-01) https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap MULTISTRAP(1) (2010-10-02) http://manpages.debian.org

Installing Debian Jessie/testing via debootstrap

Hi I've installed debian testing from within stable using debootstrap (following https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html). At the moment this is my partition table: --8---cut here---start-8--- NAME MAJ:MIN RM

Re: Installing Debian Jessie/testing via debootstrap

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 06:02:37PM +0200, daniele.g wrote: Hi I've installed debian testing from within stable using debootstrap (following https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html). At the moment this is my partition table: --8---cut here---start

howto import gpg key (was ... Re: debootstrap etch unknown key)

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:38:47AM -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: Tried gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys B5D0C804ADB11277 and it pulled down the Etch Stable Release Key debian-rele...@lists.debian.org key. $ gpg --fingerprint ADB11277 pub 1024D/ADB11277 2006-09-17 Key fingerprint

Re: debootstrap etch unknown key

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 08:19:13PM +, Mike Fitzgerald wrote: Hi I've got a Cobalt Raq4 and am trying install etch (that's the most recent version it will take) but when issuing: root@debian:/# debootstrap --arch i386 etch /nfsroot-x86 [1]http://archive.debian.org/debian

Re: debootstrap etch unknown key

On 19/02/2014 09:56, Darac Marjal wrote: You should probably try and find a source that you trust that tells you what they key for Etch was and then fetch that manually (it may still be on keyservers etc). I still have a box in the corner running Etch. I had a quick look for what it thinks

Re: debootstrap etch unknown key

On 19/02/2014 09:15, Ron Leach wrote: On 19/02/2014 09:56, Darac Marjal wrote: You should probably try and find a source that you trust that tells you what they key for Etch was and then fetch that manually (it may still be on keyservers etc). I still have a box in the corner running Etch.

debootstrap etch unknown key

Hi I've got a Cobalt Raq4 and am trying install etch (that's the most recent version it will take) but when issuing: root@debian:/# debootstrap --arch i386 etch /nfsroot-x86 http://archive.debian.org/debian/ I get the following error messages: I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving

Re: debootstrap fails

Le dimanche 26 août 2012 à 00:50 +0200, Gaël DONVAL a écrit : Something is wrong somewhere but not yet enough information to know where. I tend to swap hardware around until I can either isolate the problem to a specific component or work around it in some other way. I'm gonna switch to

Re: debootstrap fails

Le dimanche 26 août 2012 à 13:44 +0200, Gaël DONVAL a écrit : Le dimanche 26 août 2012 à 00:50 +0200, Gaël DONVAL a écrit : Something is wrong somewhere but not yet enough information to know where. I tend to swap hardware around until I can either isolate the problem to a specific

debootstrap fails

I try to use debootstrap on the internal HDD, everything works just fine. When I try to use debootstrap on the external SSD, it fails: [...] I: Extracting liblzma5... I: Extracting xz-utils... I: Extracting zlib1g... I: Installing core packages... W: Failure trying to run: chroot /media/System_

Re: debootstrap fails

Gaël DONVAL wrote: I try to install Debian from my Debian onto an external SSD disk. The SSD disk is plugged on a USB3 dock. When I try to use debootstrap on the external SSD, it fails: Any idea? Any disk errors in /var/log/syslog? I have had terrible luck with the reliability of external

Re: debootstrap fails

Le samedi 25 août 2012 à 14:46 -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : Gaël DONVAL wrote: I try to install Debian from my Debian onto an external SSD disk. The SSD disk is plugged on a USB3 dock. When I try to use debootstrap on the external SSD, it fails: Any idea? Any disk errors in /var/log

Re: debootstrap fails

Gaël DONVAL wrote: It does not occur when I use debootstrap but some times after that. I'm very disappointed: the device was not cheap... I have had varied reliability with external usb disks. External SATA have always worked flawlessly for me. But usb works, sometimes for a long time, but I

Re: debootstrap fails

. I don't know what the root cause is but it doesn't seem to be a debootstrap problem. Nope. I just got the problem with rsync. And debootstrap did not produce this problem... Seems to be something in the environment below that. But is it kernel or cabling or something else that I do

Squeeze Debootstrap stoops on NFS4 Solaris10 share (on zfs dataset)

hi, I have problems to get debootstrap squeeze /path/to/nfs4_solaris/share. It extracting several archives and than you get a prompt, without any messages. [...] I: Extracting libtext-wrapi18n-perl... I: Extracting mawk... I: Extracting libncurses5... I: Extracting ncurses-base... I

(solved) Re: Squeeze Debootstrap stoops on NFS4 Solaris10 share (on zfs dataset)

Am 24.04.2012 um 13:58 schrieb Denny Schierz: hi, I have problems to get debootstrap squeeze /path/to/nfs4_solaris/share. It extracting several archives and than you get a prompt, without any messages. [...] I: Extracting libtext-wrapi18n-perl... I: Extracting mawk... I: Extracting

debootstrap doesn't support fakeroot variant

On a Squeeze, I'm trying debootstrap with variant fakeroot: $ sudo debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=fakeroot squeeze debootstrap-squeeze-amd64 E: unsupported variant This is exactly bug 319100[1] (2005), which is tagged as fixed: - the error is the same, - the man page states

Re: debootstrap doesn't support fakeroot variant

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Nicolas Bercher nberc...@yahoo.fr wrote: On a Squeeze, I'm trying debootstrap with variant fakeroot:  $ sudo debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=fakeroot squeeze debootstrap-squeeze-amd64  E: unsupported variant This is exactly bug 319100[1] (2005), which

Re: debootstrap doesn't support fakeroot variant

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:01:12 +0100, Nicolas Bercher wrote: On a Squeeze, I'm trying debootstrap with variant fakeroot: $ sudo debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=fakeroot squeeze debootstrap-squeeze-amd64 E: unsupported variant (...) By reading the man page, shouldn't be --variant

Re: debootstrap doesn't support fakeroot variant

On 19/03/2012 15:13, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:01:12 +0100, Nicolas Bercher wrote: On a Squeeze, I'm trying debootstrap with variant fakeroot: $ sudo debootstrap --arch=amd64 --variant=fakeroot squeeze debootstrap-squeeze-amd64 E: unsupported variant (...) By reading

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