Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/29/2018 07:11 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Richard, On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:43:42AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/29/2018 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: You can try it out to verify after you fix the mount options to not include nodev.

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richard, On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:43:42AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/29/2018 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > >>You can try it out to verify after you fix the mount options to not > >>include nodev. […] > The man page for mount hin

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/29/2018 12:59 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: Richard Owlett writes: On 04/27/2018 12:06 PM, Felix Dietrich wrote: [SNIP] Script started on Fri 27 Apr 2018 02:22:42 PM CDT ls -Rdl /media/root/rco1 ls -Rdl /usr/sbin/debootstrap ls -Rdl /medi

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/28/2018 10:57 PM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: Richard Owlett writes: 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

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-28 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Richard Owlett writes: > 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. Capture

Re: [Progress Report1] Re: Using debootstrap

2018-04-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/27/2018 09:54 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: 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 partiti

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: [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: [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: [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