On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:47:15PM +0200, parazyd wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > Perhaps my problem was that I unpacked the devuan.debian.tar.gz archive > > > on the target /mnt/debinist/usr/share. If instead I run > > > > > > # dpkg -i debootstrap_1.0.75-1+devuan1_all.deb > > > > > > I fear it will overwrite the debootstrap on my current Wheezy Debian > > > system and break it. > > > > The debootstrap from devuan is safe to install. It differs only in > > having a few bugfixes. Besides, you can always grab the package from > > wheezy and overwrite. > > Again, please excuse my ignorance. You appear to say that I can use dpkg > to install the dpkg -i debootstrap_1.0.75-1+devuan1_all.deb on my > running Wheezy system, for it is essentially the same. But when I do > that and run: > > # debootstrap -no-check-gpg jessie /mnt/debinst/ \ > http://packages.devuan.org/merged > E: No such script: http://packages.devuan.org/merged > > > Anyway, sorry if there is too much 'tech talk'. Try looking at this > > forum thread: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/how-to-install-debian-using-debootstrap-4175465295/ > > Yes, thanks. What confused me was that when I did cross installation in > years past, there were no stages to worry about. But the immediate > problem is that I can't even get started with the above command. >
"-no-check-gpg" should be "--no-check-gpg"
What if you do this?
# debootstrap --no-check-gpg --foreign --arch [architecture] jessie \
/mnt/debinst http://packages.devuan.org/merged
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