A question I raised was left unanswered because the thread drifted into other issues. So let me repose the question in an appropriately named thread.
I'm doing a cross install of devuan Alpha 4 onto a newly partitioned hard disk (/dev/sda1) in same box as my running Debian Wheezy system (/dev/sdb1). I partitioned, formatted and mounted the needed new disk's partitions; I downloaded debootstrap_1.0.75-1*.deb to a working directory in my current sytem; I unpacked the data tarball, Finally I ran the devuan debootstrap to install a base system on the target drive. # debootstrap --no-check-gpg jessie /mnt/debinst \ http://packages.devuan.org/merged Basically this went well, and in about 5-10 minutes I had the files for a basic devuan system on the target drive. However, some hiccups along the way: W: Couldn't download package mount (ver 2.26.2-6+devuan arch i386) ... W: Couldn't download package coreutils (ver 8.23-r arch i386) ... W: Retrying failed download of http://packages.devuan/org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/g/gnutls28/ \ libgnutls-deb0028_3.3.8-6+debv8ud_i386.deb ... W: Couldn't download package insserv (ver 1.14.0-5 qrch i386) ... I: Validating libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1 W: Retrying failed download of http://packages.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/p/ \ pam/libpam-modules_1.1.8-3.1+deb8u1+b1_i386.deb ... I: Retrieving startpar 0.59-3 W: Couldn't download package startpar (ver 0.59-3 arch i386) ... I: Retrieving udev 215-17+deb8u4 W: Couldn't download package udev (ver 215-17+deb8u4 arch i386) I: Retrieving tar 1.27.1-2+b1 I: Validating tar 1.27.1-2+b1 W: Retrying failed download of http://packages.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/t/tar/ \ tar_1.27.1-2+b1_i386.deb I: Retrieving tar 1.27.1-2+b1 ... E: Couldn't download packages: mount coreutils insserv startpar udev Why were these five packages not found? They are obviously critical. When I go to https://packages.devuan.org/merged/, the pool directory is empty. A puzzle. But I suppose none of this is relevant to my effort next to chroot into the new system: # LANG=C.UTF-8 chroot /mnt/debinst /bin/bash /bin/bash: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /bin/bash) /bin/bash: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5) /bin/bash: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5) This seems to be a problem running chroot from my running machine and is irrelevant to the lean devuan target I just installed. If so, failure to download some packages is irrelevant to the chroot problem. I gather glibc is part of libc. So do these errors indicate that the libc version on my running machine is incompatible with its version of chroot? I do: $ ldd /bin/bash ... libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7609000) $ ldd /usr/sbin/chroot ... libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7643000) Haines Brown _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng