Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 12:06 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: [SNIP] Do not specify „--print-debs” if you want „debootstrap” to install the packages. *BINGO* Proofreading one's own work is intrinsically error prone ;/ But it doesn't solve all my problems. Captured the session with SCRIPT(1). I haven't y

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Felix Dietrich
Richard Owlett writes: > On 04/25/2018 09:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> My goal is a very minimalist install to a flash drive. It will NOT >> have GRUB - GRUB on this machine is on a dedicated partition for >> convenience in some of my experiments. > > Doing: > debootstrap --verbose --arch

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > The error message when attempting "debootstrap --second-stage" is > "cat: /usr/share/debootstrap/suite: No such file or directory". I don't recall to be using second stage. I just make debootstrap with perhaps architecture and I think it takes the minimal as default. Sy

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, April 27, 2018 10:16:22 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I thought I was doing that. My TARGET is "/media/richard/rco" where > "rco" is the label of a partition on the flash drive. Just chiming in from left field: have you mounted that partition?

Re: Inexplicable memory usage after move to Debian9

2018-04-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/27/18, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:26:11PM +, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On sex, 27 abr 2018, Simon Beirnaert wrote: >> > The bottom line for me is that I when I shut down everything I install >> > and manage on the system, it's still conuming about half a g

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 08:49 AM, deloptes wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: QUESTION: Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive? I do install in a directory and then copy the content to the flash drive then chroot and make it bootable I was installing to the flash drive because I

Re: Inexplicable memory usage after move to Debian9

2018-04-27 Thread David Wright
On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 12:26:11 (+), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On sex, 27 abr 2018, Simon Beirnaert wrote: > >The bottom line for me is that I when I shut down everything I install > >and manage on the system, it's still conuming about half a gig more > >than a system running the exact same

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > QUESTION: > Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive? I do install in a directory and then copy the content to the flash drive then chroot and make it bootable alternatively you ma install into directory where flash drive is mounted and then chro

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 08:00 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: ... QUESTION: Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive? not yet... :) i'm currently having other bigger fish to fry... My environment is: OS is i386 Debian stable DVD is DVD-1 of Debian 9

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > QUESTION: > Has anyone personally used debootstrap to install to a flash drive? not yet... :) i'm currently having other bigger fish to fry... > My environment is: >OS is i386 Debian stable >DVD is DVD-1 of Debian 9.1.0 >Flash drive has a: > 4 G

Re: Inexplicable memory usage after move to Debian9

2018-04-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:26:11PM +, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On sex, 27 abr 2018, Simon Beirnaert wrote: > > The bottom line for me is that I when I shut down everything I install > > and manage on the system, it's still conuming about half a gig more > > than a system runni

Re: Inexplicable memory usage after move to Debian9

2018-04-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On sex, 27 abr 2018, Simon Beirnaert wrote: The bottom line for me is that I when I shut down everything I install and manage on the system, it's still conuming about half a gig more than a system running the exact same base image right after use, without the extra memory being accounted for by m

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 06:38 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Doing: debootstrap --verbose --arch=i386 --include=apt-get --variant=minbase --no-check-gpg --print-debs --keep-debootstrap-dir stable /media/richard/rco file:media/cdrom0/debian/ generates no error messages. HOWEVER, very few files are actua

[Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/25/2018 09:19 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: My goal is a very minimalist install to a flash drive. It will NOT have GRUB - GRUB on this machine is on a dedicated partition for convenience in some of my experiments. From reading several references I believe my command should be: debootstrap

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/26/2018 02:43 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:02:38PM +0200, deloptes wrote: Henning Follmann wrote: Happy to read the man page to you buddy. -H while I can understand your feeling quite well, I had to teach myself either to ignore affecting questions or to ans

Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/26/2018 02:39 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: deloptes writes: its better you give example in such case debootstrap [OPTION...] stable /mypath/to/target/installation file:///DVD1 this is how I understand it, correct if I'm wrong Almost: as has been stated elsewhere in this thread, at leas

Re: Inexplicable memory usage after move to Debian9

2018-04-27 Thread Simon Beirnaert
I'm not sure that a ratio of 512MB swap to 1.8GB RAM really proves anything. If the swap space matched RAM in size and still filled up, I think that would be more definitive. The bottom line for me is that I when I shut down everything I install and manage on the system, it's still conuming abou