Re: Booting my laptop

[John H. Robinson, IV]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:18:20PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> 
> The way to generate basedebs.tgz is by using "debootstrap", like:
> 
> cd /tmp
> mkdir woody
> debootstrap --download-only woody woody http://http.us.debian.org
debootstrap --download-only woody woody http://http.us.debian.org/debian
> cd woody
> tar czvf basedebs.tgz var

-john


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Re: Booting my laptop

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 1904-01-01 at 03:07, Chris Tillman wrote:

> I don't know how to generate it, although I understand it's not too
> hard, but there's one you can download at
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~walters/debian/basedebs.tgz

U, those basedebs are for PowerPC, which will likely not work on his
laptop :)

The way to generate basedebs.tgz is by using "debootstrap", like:

cd /tmp
mkdir woody
debootstrap --download-only woody woody http://http.us.debian.org
cd woody
tar czvf basedebs.tgz var

debootstrap is a shell script that should run on RedHat; you can get it
from: http://packages.debian.org/debootstrap

Good luck!


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Re: Booting my laptop

[Chris Tillman]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 10:51:46PM -, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having great trouble booting Debian on my laptop for various reasons
> and basically have one option left that I can see: build a basedebs.tgz file
> for Debian Testing and put in on the Windows partition, and then tell a
> woody boot floppy to install the base system from that tarball.
> 
> However, I've asked in #debian, #debian-boot and debian-user and nobody
> knows how I can create this file.  The machines around the laptop have a
> fairly fast net connection (~35 KB/s, nothing special but better than a
> modem!) so I can download large-ish files like the base of Woody.  Its
> downloading entire CD images which are not a good idea (shared net
> connection) which is why I haven't just downloaded an entire image of Woody.
> 
> So, if anyone here can tell me how to generate the basedebs.tgz file (it
> will have to be done RedHat, btw) so that I can get debian onto my new
> laptop, I can then dist-upgrade using my Sid CDs and finally have a system
> to read my email with over Christmas...  :)

I don't know how to generate it, although I understand it's not too
hard, but there's one you can download at

http://people.debian.org/~walters/debian/basedebs.tgz

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Booting my laptop

[Ross Burton]

Hi,

I am having great trouble booting Debian on my laptop for various reasons
and basically have one option left that I can see: build a basedebs.tgz file
for Debian Testing and put in on the Windows partition, and then tell a
woody boot floppy to install the base system from that tarball.

However, I've asked in #debian, #debian-boot and debian-user and nobody
knows how I can create this file.  The machines around the laptop have a
fairly fast net connection (~35 KB/s, nothing special but better than a
modem!) so I can download large-ish files like the base of Woody.  Its
downloading entire CD images which are not a good idea (shared net
connection) which is why I haven't just downloaded an entire image of Woody.

So, if anyone here can tell me how to generate the basedebs.tgz file (it
will have to be done RedHat, btw) so that I can get debian onto my new
laptop, I can then dist-upgrade using my Sid CDs and finally have a system
to read my email with over Christmas...  :)

Many thanks for any help,
Ross Burton


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