Hi, > > I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on > > a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on > > the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r1a/main/disks-m68k/base-images-current/basedebs.tar > > In the 'disks-arch' directory you should find base-tarballs. These are > copied to the root directory on installation as a starting point during > install.
> However, this is not the recommended way to install debian. > Your best option, if you do not want to download too much, is > downloading the floppy images (or if it's available for m68k a mini > cd-image) and installing from that. But I am not looking for installation files. I'd like to get an m68k Debian tree into a directory on an m68k NetBSD system so I can test NetBSD's Linux ABI emulation. I did find the base2_2.tgz file, but is there anything newer? > > What do you people do for chroots? > > Usually I just copy those few files I need in a chroot manually, there's > no need to have a full environment there, only some minimal device > files, libraries and one or two binaries. Chicken-and-egg problem. I can do this with base2_2.tgz, but I'm surprised that such a file isn't available for the latest stable release. Is there a reason for this that anyone knows of? Thanks, John Klos Sixgirls Computing Labs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
