I have a machine with Debian Jessie {MATE DE} installed.
I have a full set of Debian Jessie install DVDs.
This machine has *NO* internet connectivity.I wish to use debootstrap to make a minimal but functional install of Debian to /dev/sda9. The available references include: [1] https://wiki.debian.org/chroot [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap [3] https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/debootstrap/debootstrap.8.en.html [4] https://debian-administration.org/article/433/Mounting_things_in_multiple_locations [5] https://debian-administration.org/article/426/Installing_new_Debian_systems_with_debootstrap [6] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/how-to-install-debian-using-debootstrap-4175465295/ [7] http://shallowsky.com/blog/linux/install/debootstrap.html What I've done so far {using root privileges} is: # create a local repository on hard disk for convenience mkdir /mnt/all mount -t ext2 /dev/sda7 /mnt/all xorriso -osirrox on:auto_chmod_on -overwrite nondir \ -indev /dev/sr0 \ -extract / /media/richard/all/tst1 sync mkdir /mnt/owl1 mount -t ext2 /dev/sda9 /mnt/owl1 debootstrap --no-check-gpg stable /mnt/owl1 file:///mnt/all/tst1 sync update-grub The output when running update-grub was: Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae Found Debian GNU/Linux (8.6) on /dev/sda9 done root@mate-full:/home/richard# It did not create a line on the boot menu to run the Debian on /dev/sda9 . As reference [4] says "...your new system has no kernel installed and is also missing ..." The instructions it gives are not suitable for my environment. Can someone recommend a reference that covers my circumstances? TIA
