On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: >> Joe wrote: >>> >>> There are various references on the Net to 'Debian From >>> Scratch' but >>> they seem to refer to installing Debian using various >>> methods rather >>> than actually compiling it from source. I think >>> (c)debootstrap has >>> already been mentioned in this context. >> >> "debootstrap" had not been mentioned that I recall. >> It will save me from reinventing wheel. > > Unfortunately it won't. > In my quick scan of the documentation I misread the first sentence of > http://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap . It states: > "debootstrap is a tool which will install a Debian base system into a > subdirectory of another, *_already installed system_* ." [EMPHASIS added]
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