Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.108 Running debootstrap fails because it tries to fetch the package list shown in /var/lib/apt/lists named binary-i386_Packages. But there is no such file on the server. Instead there are files: binary-i386_Packages.gz and binary-i386_Packages.xz but it doesn't look for them. I've run strace on it. Here's the command I gave and results:
debootstrap --variant=minbase --verbose stretch /minboot http://debian.usu.edu/debian I: Retrieving InRelease I: Checking Release signature I: Valid Release signature (key id 067E3C456BAE240ACEE88F6FEF0F382A1A7B6500) I: Retrieving Packages E: Couldn't download http://debian.usu.edu/debian/dists/stretch/main/binary-i386/Packages debootstrap needs to find one of the compressed files. download it, and unconpress it. But it doesn't. David Lawyer
