On 15/10/11 03:43, peter green wrote: [...] > If I were you I would just add it manually (using your PC)
Problem found: dpkg is actually in unreleased, and not in unstable, so debootstrap couldn't find it. Also, debootstrap was dying in really weird ways without producing any diagnostics; you have to look at the logfile to figure out whether it succeeded or not. I did eventually get it working using multistrap, and the following configuration file: ---snip--- [General] noauth=false unpack=true cleanup=false bootstrap=debianports-unreleased debianports-unstable aptsources=debianports-unreleased debianports-unstable addimportant=true [debianports-unreleased] packages=wpasupplicant source=http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian keyring=debian-ports-archive-keyring suite=unreleased omitdebsrc=true [debianports-unstable] source=http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian keyring=debian-ports-archive-keyring suite=unstable omitdebsrc=true ---snip--- In addition: - the qemu chroot stuff (which is a neat trick, BTW) won't work without installing binfmt-support (which isn't mentioned). - I had to set 'APT::Immediate-Configure "false"' to make the kernel installation stage work. - /boot/bootimg.cfg must not have trailing newlines. - by default the root password appears to be unset, which means you can't log in; but CTRL+ALT+STRANGE_COGWHEEL_KEY will at least reboot cleanly... But it does now appear to be working, although there are some oddities. Next stop, wireless. (Sigh. I remember the good old days when you could get preinstalled root filesystem images.) -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ "Under communism, man exploits man. Under capitalism, it's just the │ opposite." --- John Kenneth Galbrith
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