Thank you for your time. Just tried it with Wheezy with essentially the same error message. I suppose the next step is diving into the bug tracking reports. I wonder if the native mode of multistrap is just not used that often. All the posts I've found seem to deal only with cross-platform projects.
Or maybe just try to use debootstrap. The instructions I've found so far explicitly state there are manual steps required after the instructions are completed. The multistrap blurbs indicated that was all taken care of automagically. May have to slog thru the nitty gritty personally ;/ Micah Cowan wrote: > I don't think the something missing is that you don't "know enough". > The output of the command certainly mistifies me. Even if "you're > doing it wrong", the output of multistrap clearly ought to be more > enlightening than that. > > It looks like, despite saying that it did the unpack, it was left > without a /bin/sh. My suspicion is that the unpack didn't actually > happen or something - seems like there'd have been more messages at > that stage. It is also possible that the unpack did happen, but > whoever was responsible to create a symlink from /bin/sh to /bin/bash > or /bin/dash, failed to do so. > > I work on packaging our custom (internal) Ubuntu-based OS for a > living, and I can attest that recent bash packages have some somewhat > convoluted logic for deciding whether or not it should create such a > symlink, so it could be that the case that the package itself is > broken in some way that failed for you during your multistat run. In > the past, it was as simple as bash always creating such a symlink, and > (in Ubuntu, specifically) dash having a postinst script that overrides > bash's symlink with its own - we don't like /bin/sh -> dash, so every > new LTS release of Ubuntu we always work to reverse whatever it is > they did to point it to dash instead of bash. But recent Debian > versions of bash include "accomodations" for people/downstream distros > that prefer to use dash as /bin/sh, and I'm not sure it's "helpful" > enough to justify the complexity it introduces. :-P > > -mjc > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm looking for a detailed example for using Debian's multistrap >> in native mode. >> >> The links I've found are: >> https://wiki.debian.org/Multistrap >> https://wiki.debian.org/MultistrapManPage >> http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=multistrap&sektion=1 >> >> There appears to be "something missing". I'm becoming to suspect >> that what is missing is something in my limited Linux background >> (i.e. "Everyone knows that ... ;) >> >> Complete details posted at >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg00079.html >> >> Any suggestions for additional reading. >> TIA >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
