Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread David Given
On 15/10/11 16:15, Hector Oron wrote: [...] > Right, firmware-ralink is 'non-free', debian-ports.org only has 'main' > but being an arch all package I guess you could enable an official > debian non-free repository in your sources.list I thought it might be something like that; ta. However, adding

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/15 David Given : > For the record, wireless worked fine, although I did have to copy the > firmware-ralink package from my desktop machine to the AC100 (it doesn't > seem to be available in debian-ports). Right, firmware-ralink is 'non-free', debian-ports.org only has 'main' but b

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread peter green
Hector Oron wrote: Hello, 2011/10/15 peter green : # debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg sid . http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian >However, the resulting file system does not seem to contain a dpkg executable I don't know

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread David Given
On 15/10/11 13:02, David Given wrote: [...] > But it does now appear to be working, although there are some oddities. > Next stop, wireless. For the record, wireless worked fine, although I did have to copy the firmware-ralink package from my desktop machine to the AC100 (it doesn't seem to be ava

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/15 David Given : > But it does now appear to be working, although there are some oddities. > Next stop, wireless. (Sigh. I remember the good old days when you could > get preinstalled root filesystem images.) Multistrap, just provides an unconfigured rootfs, then integrator or deve

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread David Given
On 15/10/11 03:43, peter green wrote: [...] > If I were you I would just add it manually (using your PC) Problem found: dpkg is actually in unreleased, and not in unstable, so debootstrap couldn't find it. Also, debootstrap was dying in really weird ways without producing any diagnostics; you have

Re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2011/10/15 peter green : >># debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf >> --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg sid . >> http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian >However, the resulting file system does >> not seem to contain a dpkg executable > I don't know for sure why it did

re: Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-14 Thread peter green
(On PC) # cd /mnt ># debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg sid . http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian >However, the resulting file system does not seem to contain a dpkg executable I don't know for sure why it didn't end up in there b

Problems debootstrapping armhf

2011-10-14 Thread David Given
So my shiny new AC100 laptop has arrived, and I'm trying to install armhf Debian on it. As per the instructions here: http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Toshiba/AC100 ...I have done a foreign debootstrap from another machine, with the following: (On PC) # cd /mnt # debootstrap