On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:37, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op ma 24-02-2003, om 21:11 schreef Kars de Jong: > > I suppose I could try an older debootstrap. > > You could do that too, of course. I assumed you needed certain features > of debootstrap which were only available in the unstable version -- > incorrectly, perhaps?
Er, yes. Just downloaded the newest I could find ;-) <snip> > > Yes, that would work if I was installing from a Debian system, however, > > I'm not. > > Uh? > > <glances at emailaddress> > <blushes> > > Ah. Whoops. Sorry, since I didn't know you, I went into > explain-to-newbie mode. Never mind ;-) *grin* It's okay. I am a bit of a Debian newbie. I am from the time where you started your installation by untarring the a.out root filesystem. > > A binary that works would obviously be more convenient ;-) > > Sure. If you could try the stable version first (stable has glibc 2.2), > I'll try to compile you the unstable version in a potato chroot. If it > still doesn't work with that, you're out of luck :-P I however have glibc 2.1 ;-) So, regarding versions: stable -> glibc 2.2, and potato -> glibc 2.1? You think it's possible to bootstrap woody with the potato debootstrap? If that works you don't have to bother compiling, but thanks for the offer :-) Kind regards, Kars.
