Re: how to use debootstrap tar as repo inside the chroot

2024-08-02 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, Tim Woodall wrote: # Reading through this now I'm not absolutely sure that those hoops I # jump throught to sign the repo are needed... Just confirmed the gpg stuff is not needed # Not sure why I have that proxy bit in here either. I think I'm # installing from a file re

Re: how to use debootstrap tar as repo inside the chroot

2024-08-02 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, daggs wrote: Greetings, I'm working on an automated Debian installation without network access. I've discovered the --make-tarball and --unpack-tarball switches which I use to create the tarball and use it as repo. the initial deployment is this: debootstrap --

how to use debootstrap tar as repo inside the chroot

2024-08-02 Thread daggs
Greetings, I'm working on an automated Debian installation without network access. I've discovered the --make-tarball and --unpack-tarball switches which I use to create the tarball and use it as repo. the initial deployment is this: debootstrap --arch amd64 --unpack-tarball /tmp/d

Re: how to debootstrap Debian 8 Jessie released 2015-04-25 on Ubuntu 14.04

2023-06-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 10:22:56AM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote: > ok. these works : > > debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf > http://archive.debian.org/debian > > debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf strech strech-armhf > http://archive.debian.org/deb

Re: how to debootstrap Debian 8 Jessie released 2015-04-25 on Ubuntu 14.04

2023-06-18 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, El dom., 18 jun. 2023 10:23, Mario Marietto escribió: > ok. these works : > > debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf > http://archive.debian.org/debian > > debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf strech strech-armhf > http://archive.debian.org/de

Re: how to debootstrap Debian 8 Jessie released 2015-04-25 on Ubuntu 14.04

2023-06-18 Thread Mario Marietto
ok. these works : debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf strech strech-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian but not this : root@marietto-Z87-HD3:/home/marietto/Scrivania/Chromebook/linux-distros# debootstrap

Re: how to debootstrap Debian 8 Jessie released 2015-04-25 on Ubuntu 14.04

2023-06-18 Thread Mario Marietto
Can you elaborate the full command ? thanks. On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 10:12 AM Javier Barroso wrote: > Hello, > > El dom., 18 jun. 2023 9:56, Mario Marietto > escribió: > >> I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I would like to debootstrap debian jessie 8. >> I've

Re: how to debootstrap Debian 8 Jessie released 2015-04-25 on Ubuntu 14.04

2023-06-18 Thread Javier Barroso
Hello, El dom., 18 jun. 2023 9:56, Mario Marietto escribió: > I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I would like to debootstrap debian jessie 8. > I've found this tutorial and I tried , but it didn't work : > > from here : > > https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/posts/

how to debootstrap Debian 8 Jessie released 2015-04-25 on Ubuntu 14.04

2023-06-18 Thread Mario Marietto
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I would like to debootstrap debian jessie 8. I've found this tutorial and I tried , but it didn't work : from here : https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/posts/linux/debian-armhf-bootstrap.html he says to do : # debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jess

Re: Re: (Thread restarted!) Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-29 Thread Valentin Caracalla
Hello everyone, I partly solved my problem and I would like to share my solution: Until now, I thought that the EFI removable media path (\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI) is really a fallback location, i.e. a location for putting the boot loader that just always works. Therefore I thought that I could fo

Re: (Thread restarted!) Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-28 Thread David Wright
w that it works in principle. But now I want to do it using command line utilities like debootstrap and grub-install." But: "the problem is that the ESC boot menu doesn't show an entry for (the model name of) /dev/sda, so I can't boot into it." My first question wo

Re: (Thread restarted!) Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/04/2023 22:57, Valentin Caracalla wrote: the issue with the BIOS boot interface (see my original posting) is still unsolved I had impression that there was no issue with booting in BIOS (legacy, compatibility, CSM) mode, of course when it is chosen in firmware/BIOS setup (requires disa

(Thread restarted!) Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-26 Thread Valentin Caracalla
you just read this one post: Hello everyone, I want to install Debian on my Asus UX31A using command line utilities like debootstrap and grub-install. I want to install it to the internal drive /dev/sda, and I want to do so by executing commands on an installer system, which is a system already

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-26 Thread Nicolas George
David Wright (12023-04-25): > Don't knock it! The Human Era is much easier for us to parse than ;-) > the French Republican calendar (pre 2018). I had not realized I had fans devoted to the point of tracking the eras of my mail attribution. ;-)² Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc De

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-26 Thread Nicolas George
Greg Wooledge (12023-04-25): > find /mnt/boot/efi -exec ls -dl {} + zsh ls -dl /mnt/boot/efi/**/* Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Wed 26 Apr 2023 at 09:14:25 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/04/2023 00:42, Nicolas George wrote: > > Steve McIntyre (12023-04-25): [ … ] > P.S. Nicolas, it seems your mailer has issues with parsing or > formatting timestamps. Don't knock it! The Human Era is much easier for us to parse th

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 09:34:11AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 26/04/2023 05:02, Valentin Caracalla wrote: > > > > user@host:~$ ls -dl $(find /mnt/boot/efi) > > find /mnt/boot/efi -print0 | xargs -0 ls -dl -- > > should be more resistant to peculiar file names, but it does not matter in > thi

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/04/2023 05:02, Valentin Caracalla wrote: user@host:~$ ls -dl $(find /mnt/boot/efi) find /mnt/boot/efi -print0 | xargs -0 ls -dl -- should be more resistant to peculiar file names, but it does not matter in this case. ... -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 126 Apr 25 13:59 /mnt/boot/efi/EFI/

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/04/2023 00:42, Nicolas George wrote: Steve McIntyre (12023-04-25): If you do not intend to install a Microsoft bootloader or anything besides GRUB, 16 megaoctets is plenty enough, probably can work with less. Please STOP giving this advice to people! That was not advice, that was inform

Re: Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Nicolas George
Valentin Caracalla (12023-04-26): > EFI variables are not supported on this system. To install GRUB in UEFI, you need to have booted the kernel in UEFI. Try to find a live image that does, and you can reinstall GRUB from there. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP sign

Re: Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Valentin Caracalla
Here's the output you requested: user@host:~$ ls -dl $(find /mnt/boot/efi) drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   32768 Jan  1  1970 /mnt/boot/efi drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   32768 Apr 25 13:59 /mnt/boot/efi/EFI drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   32768 Apr 25 13:59 /mnt/boot/efi/EFI/debian -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 108

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Nicolas George
Steve McIntyre (12023-04-25): > >If you do not intend to install a Microsoft bootloader or anything > >besides GRUB, 16 megaoctets is plenty enough, probably can work with > >less. > Please STOP giving this advice to people! That was not advice, that was information. Make your own advice with it.

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Nicolas George wrote: >Max Nikulin (12023-04-25): >> 0.5GB is usually enough, e.g. 550MiB recommended by >> https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/advice.html#esp_sizing) > >If you do not intend to install a Microsoft bootloader or anything >besides GRUB, 16 megaoctets is plenty enough, probably can work

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Nicolas George
Max Nikulin (12023-04-25): > 0.5GB is usually enough, e.g. 550MiB recommended by > https://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/advice.html#esp_sizing) If you do not intend to install a Microsoft bootloader or anything besides GRUB, 16 megaoctets is plenty enough, probably can work with less. Regards, --

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/04/2023 21:40, Valentin Caracalla wrote: I checked my partition table using "sudo parted /dev/sda print" Number  Start   End    Size   File system  Name  Flags 1  1049kB  128GB  128GB  fat32    init  boot, esp 2  128GB   256GB  128GB  ext4 root Please, show

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
vorubergeh...@tutanota.com wrote: >By the way: > >The disadvantage of using EFI is that it doesn't work in QEMU, i.e. the >following will not show a GRUB command line: > >sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -smp 2 -m 2G /dev/sda > >The same thing works for the BIOS boot interface, however (as in my

Re: Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Nicolas George
Valentin Caracalla (12023-04-25): > The disadvantage of using EFI is that it doesn't work in QEMU, i.e. the > following will not show a GRUB command line: > > sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -smp 2 -m 2G /dev/sda Oh, I must check if the KVM virtual machine booting on UEFI I have been toying w

Re: Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Valentin Caracalla
By the way: The disadvantage of using EFI is that it doesn't work in QEMU, i.e. the following will not show a GRUB command line: sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -smp 2 -m 2G /dev/sda The same thing works for the BIOS boot interface, however (as in my original recipe).

Re: Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Valentin Caracalla
I apologize for the formatting in my last post, I don't know what happened. And many thanks for your help! I checked my partition table using "sudo parted /dev/sda print" and it didn't show any flags for partition 1 (the "init" partition). Therefore I manually set the flags using "sudo parted /

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Valentin Caracalla writes: > But this doesn't work either. Same problem here. However I can make > such an EFI installation using official installation media on the same > machine and that does work. That recipe (and the whole post) was hard to read but don't you need some flags for the ESP part

Re: Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Valentin Caracalla
do parted /dev/sda mkpart init 0% 50% sudo parted /dev/sda mkpart root 50% 100% sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt sudo mkdir /mnt/boot sudo mkdir /mnt/boot/efi sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi sudo debootstrap stable /mnt sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys su

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Valentin Caracalla
There are a few things I forgot to say: The recipe I posted earlier is executed on a system installed on the external drive /dev/sdb, which I call the installer system. It is also a Debian system, with the recipe's dependencies installed. To reproduce the issue (if you want), I suggest using a

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Valentin Caracalla writes: > Previously, I've successfully installaed Debian using official > installation media on this machine (also using BIOS boot interface), > so I know that it works in principle. I can't see anything wrong with the script. Did that installation use GPT and a BIOS Boot Par

Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Valentin Caracalla
Hello everyone, I'm trying to install Debian on my Asus UX31A using command line utilities like debootstrap and grub-install. However, the installed system is not bootable. The problem is that the internal drive (which I install the system to) doesn't show up in the boot menu (whi

Re: Buster install using debootstrap. (SOLVED)

2020-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 6/5/20 6:31 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 6/4/20 11:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have th

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 6/4/20 11:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have the following permissions and rights: r

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:30:16AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary > > files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  > > What am I missing? > > /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:30:16AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Marc Shapiro wrote: >>> I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary >>> files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  >>> What am I missing? >> >> /tmp (a

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:30:16AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary > > files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  > > What am I missing? > > /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Marc Shapiro wrote: > I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary > files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  > What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have the following permissions and rights: root:root 1777/drwxrwxrwt apt runs

Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
I have just installed Buster on a spare set of partitions using debootstrap, as documented in:     Appendix D.3 of the Installation Guide. When I got to configuring networking, I just copied /etc/networking/interfaces, /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, and /etc/resolv.conf from my Stretch

Re: Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-10 Thread Christoph Müllner
n.org/855234 <https://bugs.debian.org/829134> (libsystemd-shared wanted to be found as well). Thanks for your help, Christoph Hi, > > (please CC me, I'm not subscribed to d-user@l.d.o) > > Quoting Christoph Müllner (2020-02-09 12:54:56) > > I'd like to run the s

Re: Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-09 Thread Christoph Müllner
Hi Hector, thanks for the pointer to debos. That tool seems to fit quite well (especially the ability to invoke user scripts for customizations), although access to /dev/kvm is quite some price to pay (but already much much better than root rights). Thanks a lot, Christoph On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at

Re: Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-09 Thread Christoph Müllner
) > > I'd like to run the second stage of debootstrap without root rights, > > but for another architecture (host is x86_64 and target is arm64). > > > > I know how to do all that with root rights (i.e qemu-aarch64-static > > works perfectly here, also, I can

Re: Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-09 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Christoph, Missatge de Christoph Müllner del dia dg., 9 de febr. 2020 a les 12:55: > I was expecting that fakechroot and fakeroot will do the necessary "magic" > to make chroot work for my use-case, but that's not the case (I need to have > libfakeroot.so > and libfakechroot.so in the tar

Re: Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-09 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, (please CC me, I'm not subscribed to d-user@l.d.o) Quoting Christoph Müllner (2020-02-09 12:54:56) > I'd like to run the second stage of debootstrap without root rights, but for > another architecture (host is x86_64 and target is arm64). > > I know how to do all that

Re: Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ sent again, without 8bit headers to please Debian MTAs ] Hi Christoph, Quoting Christoph Müllner (2020-02-09 12:54:56) > I'd like to run the second stage of debootstrap without root rights, > but for another architecture (host is x86_64 and target is arm64). > > I know h

Cross debootstrap without root rights

2020-02-09 Thread Christoph Müllner
Hi Debian users, I'd like to run the second stage of debootstrap without root rights, but for another architecture (host is x86_64 and target is arm64). I know how to do all that with root rights (i.e qemu-aarch64-static works perfectly here, also, I can recommend using qemu-debootstrap),

Re: fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap fails on buster

2019-02-03 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
ash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Run the command: > fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap --verbose --variant=fakechroot > buster ${WORKSPACE}/buster > > Ends up with a lot of warnings > dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency

fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap fails on buster

2019-02-03 Thread Per Sandberg
the command:     fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap --verbose --variant=fakechroot buster  ${WORKSPACE}/buster Ends up with a lot of warnings     dpkg: warning: ignoring pre-dependency problem! And fails finally with a lot of errors with this pattern

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/29/2018 07:11 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Richard, On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:43:42AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/29/2018 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: You can try it out to verify after you fix the mount options to not include nodev.

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:43:42AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/29/2018 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >>You can try it out to verify after you fix the mount options to not > >>include nodev. […] > The man page for mount hin

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/29/2018 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: Richard Owlett writes: On 04/27/2018 12:06 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: [SNIP] Script started on Fri 27 Apr 2018 02:22:42 PM CDT ls -Rdl /media/root/rco1 ls -Rdl /usr/sbin/debootstrap ls -Rdl

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: Richard Owlett writes: On 04/27/2018 12:06 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: [SNIP] Do not specify „--print-debs” if you want „debootstrap” to install the packages. *BINGO* Proofreading one's own work is intrinsically error prone ;/ B

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-28 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Richard Owlett writes: > On 04/27/2018 12:06 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: >>[SNIP] >> >> Do not specify „--print-debs” if you want „debootstrap” to install the >> packages. > > *BINGO* > Proofreading one's own work is intrinsically error prone ;/

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 09:54 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, April 27, 2018 10:16:22 AM Richard Owlett wrote: I thought I was doing that. My TARGET is "/media/richard/rco" where "rco" is the label of a partition on the flash drive. Just chiming in from left field: have you mounted that partiti

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 12:06 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: [SNIP] Do not specify „--print-debs” if you want „debootstrap” to install the packages. *BINGO* Proofreading one's own work is intrinsically error prone ;/ But it doesn't solve all my problems. Captured the session with SCRIPT(1).

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Felix Dietrich
Richard Owlett writes: > On 04/25/2018 09:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> My goal is a very minimalist install to a flash drive. It will NOT >> have GRUB - GRUB on this machine is on a dedicated partition for >> convenience in some of my experiments. > > Doing:

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > The error message when attempting "debootstrap --second-stage" is > "cat: /usr/share/debootstrap/suite: No such file or directory". I don't recall to be using second stage. I just make debootstrap with perhaps architecture and I think

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, April 27, 2018 10:16:22 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I thought I was doing that. My TARGET is "/media/richard/rco" where > "rco" is the label of a partition on the flash drive. Just chiming in from left field: have you mounted that partition?

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 08:49 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: QUESTION: Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive? I do install in a directory and then copy the content to the flash drive then chroot and make it bootable I was installing to the flash drive because

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > QUESTION: > Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive? I do install in a directory and then copy the content to the flash drive then chroot and make it bootable alternatively you ma install into directory where flash drive is mounted an

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 08:00 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: ... QUESTION: Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive? not yet... :) i'm currently having other bigger fish to fry... My environment is: OS is i386 Debian stable DVD is DVD-1 of D

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > QUESTION: > Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive? not yet... :) i'm currently having other bigger fish to fry... > My environment is: >OS is i386 Debian stable >DVD is DVD-1 of Debian 9.1.0 >Flas

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 06:38 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Doing: debootstrap --verbose --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant=minbase --no-check-gpg --print-debs --keep-debootstrap-dir stable /media/richard/rco file:media/cdrom0/debian/ generates no error messages. HOWEVER, very few files are

[Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
: debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant=minbase --no-check-gpg --print-debs --keep-debootstrap-dir stable /media/richard/rco /media/cdrom0/ I have two questions:   1. What should replace "" as I'll be using DVD1 of Debian 9.1.0 as my "repository"?   2

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
answer for the sake of the answer. sometimes it is really frustrating how one can not understand obvious things, however not all are same age, have same background or level of intelligence. its better you give example in such case debootstrap [OPTION...] stable /mypath/to/target/installation file

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/26/2018 02:39 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: deloptes writes: its better you give example in such case debootstrap [OPTION...] stable /mypath/to/target/installation file:///DVD1 this is how I understand it, correct if I'm wrong Almost: as has been stated elsewhere in this threa

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread David Wright
have same background or level of > > intelligence. > > > > its better you give example in such case > > > > debootstrap [OPTION...] stable /mypath/to/target/installation file:///DVD1 > > > > this is how I understand it, correct if I'm wr

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread Felix Dietrich
deloptes writes: > its better you give example in such case > > debootstrap [OPTION...] stable /mypath/to/target/installation file:///DVD1 > > this is how I understand it, correct if I'm wrong Almost: as has been stated elsewhere in this thread, at least according to Appe

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread Henning Follmann
stions or to answer for the sake of the answer. > > sometimes it is really frustrating how one can not understand obvious > things, however not all are same age, have same background or level of > intelligence. > > its better you give example in such case > > debootstrap

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread deloptes
tand obvious things, however not all are same age, have same background or level of intelligence. its better you give example in such case debootstrap [OPTION...] stable /mypath/to/target/installation file:///DVD1 this is how I understand it, correct if I'm wrong regards

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread Curt
mmand should be: > > debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant=minbase > --no-check-gpg --print-debs --keep-debootstrap-dir stable > /media/richard/rco /media/cdrom0/ > I have two questions: >1. What should replace "" as I'll be using DVD1 of

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread rhkramer
but, start a new thread, as what you're looking for is presumably not related to Using debootstrap

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/25/2018 11:03 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: ... I meant a script(1) session. Sorry. But I bet screen also has some logging capabilities, if you want to do it that way. As the man page says: It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an interactive session as proof of an assignm

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/25/2018 10:47 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 06:45:32PM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:19:13 -0500 Richard Owlett said: I have two questions: 1. What should replace "" as I'll be using DVD1 of Debian 9.1.0 as my "repository"?

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/25/2018 10:45 AM, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:19:13 -0500 Richard Owlett said: I have two questions: 1. What should replace "" as I'll be using DVD1 of Debian 9.1.0 as my "repository"? 2. As I expect the console display may exceed the scroll back

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Felix Dietrich
Henning Follmann writes: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:19:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> From reading several references I believe my command should be: >> >> debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant=minbase --no-check-gpg >> --print-debs --keep-de

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Felix Dietrich
> From reading several references I believe my command should be: > > debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant=minbase \ > --no-check-gpg --print-debs --keep-debootstrap-dir stable \ > /media/richard/rco /media/cdrom0/ > What should replace "&qu

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
... I meant a script(1) session. Sorry. But I bet screen also has some logging capabilities, if you want to do it that way.

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 06:45:32PM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:19:13 -0500 Richard Owlett said: > > > I have two questions: > >1. What should replace "" as I'll be using DVD1 of Debian 9.1.0 > > as my "repository"? > >2. As I expect the console dis

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Abdullah Ramazanoglu
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:19:13 -0500 Richard Owlett said: > I have two questions: >1. What should replace "" as I'll be using DVD1 of Debian 9.1.0 > as my "repository"? >2. As I expect the console display may exceed the scroll back limits, > I wish to pipe the console display

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Henning Follmann
; GRUB > > > - GRUB on this machine is on a dedicated partition for convenience in some > > > of my experiments. > > > > > > From reading several references I believe my command should be: > > > > > > debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=apt-get

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
reading several references I believe my command should be: debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant=minbase --no-check-gpg --print-debs --keep-debootstrap-dir stable /media/richard/rco /media/cdrom0/ I have two questions: 1. What should replace "" as I'll be using

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Henning Follmann
ieve my command should be: > > debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant=minbase --no-check-gpg > --print-debs --keep-debootstrap-dir stable /media/richard/rco > /media/cdrom0/ > > I have two questions: > 1. What should replace "" as I'll be

Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
My goal is a very minimalist install to a flash drive. It will NOT have GRUB - GRUB on this machine is on a dedicated partition for convenience in some of my experiments. From reading several references I believe my command should be: debootstrap --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > I suspect the first is closer to my mental image. Did you use > debootstrap with --variant=minbase, grml-debootstrap with --nopackages, > OR something else? For the first to work, I just copy the boot directory to the card/usb stick and make it bootable (gru

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 03:58 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 14:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: What are the trade-offs of choosing between debootstrap and grml-debootstap? I understand that

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Brian
On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 14:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/15/2018 12:43 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 15 Apr 2018 at 08:55:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > What are the trade-offs of choosing between debootstrap and > > > grml-debootstap?

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/15/2018 02:32 PM, Forest Dean Feighner wrote: Could you skip all that and use something like busybox or buildroot? I hadn't recalled either at the moment. Busybox might have an edge as it in the Debian repository {and I even have it installed - will have to investigate why I installed i

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Forest Dean Feighner
t; > "bonkers". > > ROFL <*GRIN*> > "bonkers" implies "not of sound mind. > "idiosyncratic" explicitly states my assumption that no-one else may > have _exactly_ my goals > > > > > apt is Priority: important. Try removing it fro

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
definition of "minimalist" is of no importance or consequence. To you, likely . BTW, you just reminded me that apt has a "purge" command. If DEBOOTSTRAP / GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP installs "cruft", that could be useful. Might even attempt using apt to remove itself ;/ Suggested

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
way and less consuming space. I used such approach with very old 256MB SD card to boot raspberry that runs fon NFS root. if you want some minimal rescue disk debootstrap would work or some kind of minimalistic distro - as grub is almost everywhere the same. I checked SLAX recently - just dd the iso

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Brian
with "bonkers". apt is Priority: important. Try removing it from any Debian system. For installing, your definition of "minimalist" is of no importance or consequence. > For my definitely idiosyncratic purposes *absolutely NOTHING* but grub > related tools will _ever_ be

Re: DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread deloptes
d such approach with very old 256MB SD card to boot raspberry that runs fon NFS root. if you want some minimal rescue disk debootstrap would work or some kind of minimalistic distro - as grub is almost everywhere the same. I checked SLAX recently - just dd the iso to usb and done. total size of dist

DEBOOTSTRAP or GRML-DEBOOTSTRAP more suitable?

2018-04-15 Thread Richard Owlett
"--variant=minbase" which apparently installs apt. My definition of "minimalist" would prefer not to. For my definitely idiosyncratic purposes *absolutely NOTHING* but grub related tools will _ever_ be run from this device. What are the trade-offs of choosing between

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

2017-09-28 Thread 慕 冬亮
e. > > My gut feeling is you can not force it to work unless you rebuild > initrd. > > >>>> I learn the method from the following website: >>>> >>>> https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/01/16/setting-up-qemu-kvm-for-kernel-development/ &

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

2017-09-27 Thread 慕 冬亮
up-qemu-kvm-for-kernel-development/ > I'm genuinely surprised that such method worked for them. I have learned how to use busybox as basic environment. Is that any tutorial to show how to make debian debootstrap image as basic environment? > > Reco -- My best regards to you. No System Is Safe! Dongliang Mu

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

2017-09-27 Thread Reco
od from the following website: > >> > >> https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/01/16/setting-up-qemu-kvm-for-kernel-development/ > > I'm genuinely surprised that such method worked for them. > I have learned how to use busybox as basic environment. > Is that any tutorial to show how to make debian debootstrap image as > basic environment? apt-get install vmdebootstrap man vmdebootstrap -- search for SYNOPSIS Reco

Re: image created by debootstrap does not work

2017-09-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 19:07 +, 慕 冬亮 wrote: > Hi all, > > The image created by debootstrap does not work in the qemu [...] debootstrap doesn't create images, your script does - so that's where the bug is. Rather than trying to fix your script, why not try vmdebootstrap wh

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