Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-30 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-30, Richard Owlett wrote: > Up until a couple of years ago I only had dial-up. Install DVDs {or > their images} were my only choice for a repository. There are {now > forgotten} apt related quirks to be aware of. I'm now giving myself a > refresher course on using an install DVD ( o

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/30/2019 07:51 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-05-27, Richard Owlett wrote: That left me with the problem of telling the instance of apt being run internally by mmdebstrap that dvd1.iso is trusted. I unsuccessfully tried using the distribution DVD itself. What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.is

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-30 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-27, Richard Owlett wrote: > > That left me with the problem of telling the instance of apt being run > internally by mmdebstrap that dvd1.iso is trusted. I unsuccessfully > tried using the distribution DVD itself. > > What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in dri

Re: Fresh run of mmdebstrap - was [Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time]

2019-05-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-30 13:01:10) > On 05/29/2019 03:04 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > mmdebstrap does not take debian-installer organized data as input. > > According to the man page: > [https://manpages.debian.org/testing/mmdebstrap/mmdebstrap.1.en.html] > > In contrast to deboot

Re: Fresh run of mmdebstrap - was [Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time]

2019-05-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/29/2019 03:04 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: mmdebstrap does not take debian-installer organized data as input. According to the man page: [https://manpages.debian.org/testing/mmdebstrap/mmdebstrap.1.en.html] In contrast to debootstrap it uses apt to resolve dependencies and is thus able t

Re: Fresh run of mmdebstrap - was [Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time]

2019-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-29 20:35:52) > On 05/29/2019 01:00 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-29 19:02:51) > >> On 05/27/2019 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> [snip] > > What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in drive > > {last

Re: Fresh run of mmdebstrap - was [Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time]

2019-05-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/29/2019 01:00 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-29 19:02:51) On 05/27/2019 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in drive {last resort} as my repository? mmdebstrap (and multistrap which you origina

Re: Fresh run of mmdebstrap - was [Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time]

2019-05-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-29 19:02:51) > On 05/27/2019 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [snip] > >>> What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in drive > >>> {last resort} as my repository? > >> > >> mmdebstrap (and multistrap which you originally mentioned) are unrelate

Fresh run of mmdebstrap - was [Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time]

2019-05-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/27/2019 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in drive {last resort} as my repository? mmdebstrap (and multistrap which you originally mentioned) are unrelated to dealing with ISO files. You misunderstood. debootstrap, multi

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/27/2019 12:08 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 5/27/19, Richard Owlett wrote: Further re-reading of man pages suggests that my command should begin: mmdebstrap --variant=required --aptopt="APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true" ... I hesitate to try that on this machine. Is there any w

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/27/19, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/27/19, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> Further re-reading of man pages suggests that my command should begin: >>> mmdebstrap --variant=required --aptopt="APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated >>> true" ... >> >> I hesitate to try that on this machine. > > > Is ther

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/27/19, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Further re-reading of man pages suggests that my command should begin: >> mmdebstrap --variant=required --aptopt="APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated >> true" ... > > I hesitate to try that on this machine. Is there any way to attempt a "--dry-run", or is that no

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/27/2019 10:46 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-27 17:23:17) On 05/26/2019 10:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/26/2019 09:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-26 16:34:17) I was investigating using multistrap, but it has been orphane

Re: Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-27 17:23:17) > On 05/26/2019 10:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 05/26/2019 09:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-26 16:34:17) > >>> I was investigating using multistrap, but it has been orphaned. > >>> mmdebstrap apparently has t

Problems {PEBKAC?} running mmdebstrap for 1st time

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/26/2019 10:05 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/26/2019 09:52 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-05-26 16:34:17) I was investigating using multistrap, but it has been orphaned. mmdebstrap apparently has the desired features of multistrap but is available only in Buster