Hi Neil,

thank you for your quick answers.

Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org>:
> Erik Schanze <schan...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > I set up a Debian Sid chroot as described in emsetup(1), installed
> > emdebian-tools, did the upgrade and executed emsetup.
>
> Running emdebian-tools within a chroot can cause numerous
> difficulties, especially if you try to create a chroot within a
> chroot. These problems are not unique to emdebian-tools - it can be
> difficult to create a Debian debootstrap within an existing
> debootstrap.
>

If your desktop is Debian Etch, you have to install Lenny to get 
emdebian-tools. So I tried a chroot as described in emsetup(1).
Is this way not save?

> For native builds, use debootstrap as normal - once you've built all
> the packages you need.
>
You mean one could build every package that is needed for debootstrap
with emdebian-tools and do debootstrap afterwards? Is there any 
documentation available?

> Sorry. There is no prospect of providing i386 packages any time soon
> because i386 is not a priority architecture for embedded devices.

Not yet, but with Intel-Atom it will come. Perhaps as arch "lpia".

What could I do to get a minimal RootFS for i386 (Intel-Atom)?
Is there any good documentation to build custom RootFS with emdebian?


Kindly regards,

Erik


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