On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:19:57AM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
> Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:26:03AM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
> >> 6) Etch doesn't have any debootstrap scripts that I could find for
> >> Gentoo (even latest unstable debootstrap), and when using the text
> >> installer it keeps crashing at "detecting hardware" on i386.
> >
> > I installed Etch using debootstrap under Gentoo amd64 a few days ago.
> > I emerged deboostrap 0.3.3.2 and then ran "debootstrap --arch i386 etch
> Note, this version of debootstrap doesn't have a script specifically for
> etch (whereas the debian packages do):
> ls -la /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/
> etch -> sid
Yes, I noticed that, but it's just fine. It uses the same scripts as sid
but it uses etch packages (it notices by the name).
I double-checked with a couple of DDs before doing that and they
confirmed it's just script reuse, you get an Etch system.
> > uml_root" (or "--arch amd64" if I wanted an amd64 userspace, both work)
> > and it worked just fine. It was incredibly easy.
> >
> > What problems did you run into?
> debootstrap complained about lots of missing packages, ended up with
> missing libraries and not being able to chroot.
> Maybe my local mirror wasn't up to date, I guess I'll have to try again
> with another one to find out.
That's weird, it worked just fine here, although you must run it as root
so it can populate /dev and things like that.
Thanks,
Alberto
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