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 /medi

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 ;/ But it doesn't

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 ;/ > > But it doesn't solve all my problems. Capture

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). I haven't y

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: > debootstrap --verbose --arch

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 it takes the minimal as default. Sy

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 I

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 and then chro

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 Debian 9

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 >Flash drive has a: > 4 G

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 actua

[Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
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. From reading several references I believe my command should be: debootstrap

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/26/2018 02:43 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:02:38PM +0200, deloptes wrote: Henning Follmann wrote: Happy to read the man page to you buddy. -H while I can understand your feeling quite well, I had to teach myself either to ignore affecting questions or to ans

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 thread, at leas

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread David Wright
On Thu 26 Apr 2018 at 15:43:32 (-0400), Henning Follmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:02:38PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > Happy to read the man page to you buddy. > > > > > > > > > -H > > > > while I can understand your feeling quite well, I had to teach

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 Appendix D of the Debian I

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread Henning Follmann
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:02:38PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Henning Follmann wrote: > > > Happy to read the man page to you buddy. > > > > > > -H > > while I can understand your feeling quite well, I had to teach myself either > to ignore affecting questions or to answer for the sake of the ans

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread deloptes
Henning Follmann wrote: > Happy to read the man page to you buddy. > > > -H while I can understand your feeling quite well, I had to teach myself either to ignore affecting questions or to answer for the sake of the answer. sometimes it is really frustrating how one can not understand obvious

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-26 Thread Curt
On 2018-04-25, 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. > > From reading several references I believe my command should be: > > debootst

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 03:17:40 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > How does one search for some concept for which you have no keywords? Well: * think about it, even some phrases if not keywords * describe what you are looking for here--maybe someone can help you with some keywords (but, sta

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-debootstrap-dir stable /media/rich

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 "" as I'll be using DVD1 of Debian

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
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:21:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/25/2018 10:12 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:19:13AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > My goal is a very minimalist install to a flash drive. It will NOT have > > > GRUB > > > - GRUB on this machin

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/25/2018 10:12 AM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:19:13AM -0500, 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. From readin

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-25 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:19:13AM -0500, 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. > > From reading several references I believe my command

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-10 Thread michael
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 20:11 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El lun, 07-07-2008 a las 22:54 +0100, michael escribió: > > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:56 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > El vie, 04-07-2008 a las 17:24 +0200, Shawn Beasley escribió: > > > > michael wrote: > > > > > I was following th

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-08 Thread michael
> > > OP: > > > You should chroot in /debian_chroot and run 'aptitude install > > > linux-image-architecture'. > > > If debootstrap didn't already, also install grub (or lilo if you prefer > > > it). Edit fstab (don't forget about /proc) and exit the chroot. > > > Then, if you have grub in the fed

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-08 Thread michael
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 20:11 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: {} > > > > > > OP: > > > You should chroot in /debian_chroot and run 'aptitude install > > > linux-image-architecture'. > > > If debootstrap didn't already, also install grub (or lilo if you prefer > > > it). Edit fstab (don't forget about

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-07 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El lun, 07-07-2008 a las 22:54 +0100, michael escribió: > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:56 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El vie, 04-07-2008 a las 17:24 +0200, Shawn Beasley escribió: > > > michael wrote: > > > > I was following the instructions on, eg Debian_Admin, to attempt an > > > > installatio

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-07 Thread michael
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:56 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El vie, 04-07-2008 a las 17:24 +0200, Shawn Beasley escribió: > > michael wrote: > > > I was following the instructions on, eg Debian_Admin, to attempt an > > > installation of Debian on a Fedora box (that didn't like the netinst > > > CD

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-07 Thread Shawn Beasley
michael wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:24 +0200, Shawn Beasley wrote: >> michael wrote: >>> I was following the instructions on, eg Debian_Admin, to attempt an >>> installation of Debian on a Fedora box (that didn't like the netinst >>> CD). I have got as far as installing a chroot in /debian_ch

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-07 Thread michael
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:24 +0200, Shawn Beasley wrote: > michael wrote: > > I was following the instructions on, eg Debian_Admin, to attempt an > > installation of Debian on a Fedora box (that didn't like the netinst > > CD). I have got as far as installing a chroot in /debian_chroot but > > canno

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-04 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 04-07-2008 a las 17:24 +0200, Shawn Beasley escribió: > michael wrote: > > I was following the instructions on, eg Debian_Admin, to attempt an > > installation of Debian on a Fedora box (that didn't like the netinst > > CD). I have got as far as installing a chroot in /debian_chroot but > >

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-04 Thread Shawn Beasley
michael wrote: > I was following the instructions on, eg Debian_Admin, to attempt an > installation of Debian on a Fedora box (that didn't like the netinst > CD). I have got as far as installing a chroot in /debian_chroot but > cannot work out the final steps needed to be able to boot into the > De