Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.42
Severity: minor
Hi,
Regarding the steps in manpage examples section, there are the following steps:
main # debootstrap sid sid-root http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
[ ... watch it download the whole system ]
main # echo "proc sid-root/proc proc defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
main # mount proc sid-root/proc -t proc
main # echo "sysfs sid-root/sys sysfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
main # mount sysfs sid-root/sys -t sysfs
main # cp /etc/hosts sid-root/etc/hosts
main # chroot sid-root /bin/bash
and also something very similar on wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap).
Is there really a need to do all those steps? If yes, in this order? Mainly by
modifying
the current (not the target) /etc/fstab before chroot with target paths (sid-
root relative ones)
in it?
Why not doing something more minimalist as the following:
main # debootstrap sid sid-root http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
[ ... watch it download the whole system ]
main # LANG=C chroot sid-root /bin/bash
main # mount proc /proc -t proc
main # mount sysfs /sys -t sysfs
[ ... go further the installation ]
Is the objective to have those 2 mounts explicitly into the target fstab (sid-
root/etc/fstab)?
Also, why not keeping sid-root/etc/hosts as the default one produced by
debootstrap?
This more or less related to network configuration.
Finally, according to 'Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide -- Appendix D.3:
Installing
Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System', the /dev directory have to be
updated
after the chroot as the following:
# cd /dev
# MAKEDEV generic
but MAKEDEV is not immediately available after debootstrap+chroot, so unless an
'apt-get install makedev', it is not possible to do so. Is this still the go
way to proceed
or is there a new way to do?
I suppose that something as to be done regarding /dev before proceeding further
the instruction of this Guide such as for instance the boot-loader
installation.
# apt-get install linux-image-XXXX
# apt-get install grub-pc
# tasksel install standard
Also what about the setting of root password before the "reboot"?
Regards,
Patrice
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii wget 1.13.4-3
Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2012.4
ii gnupg 1.4.12-4+b1
debootstrap suggests no packages.
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