Package: vmdebootstrap Version: 1.7-1 Severity: important
As commented in debian-live list by Jeff Epler, I should start with something like: $ sudo lwr -o hurd.iso --architecture=hurd-i386 -d unstable but this fails in debootstrap: E: Couldn't find these debs: linux-image-hurd-i386 acpid This in turn seems to be a vmdebootstrap bug, as it invokes debootstrap with '--include=acpid,sudo,linux-image-hurd-i386', which you can see with: sudo vmdebootstrap --sudo --arch=hurd-i386 --distribution unstable --squash=/tmp/hurd-test which will print ERROR: command failed: ['debootstrap', '--arch=hurd-i386', '--include=acpid,sudo,linux-image-hurd-i386', 'unstable', '/tmp/tmp7srJ9T', 'http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/'] before failing with the original error yet again E: Couldn't find these debs: linux-image-hurd-i386 acpid $ lsb_release -ds Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch) $ uname -srm Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 x86_64 $ aptitude show live-wrapper | grep -ie version Version: 0.6+nmu1