Debootstrap works just fine. I use that exact procedure to create
ubuntu images all the time. Note that you probably want
something
larger than a 750 MB filesystem, as a large Ubuntu install can
grow to
be a couple GB over several years.
Also, you will need to edit several things in the resulting etc
directory before the filesystem will boot properly. You need to
create
a tty0 in event.d (copy over and modify from tty1), you need to
add tty0
to securetty, and you need to modify network/interfaces to be
appropriate for your setup. Note that recent versions of ubuntu
try to
be smart about MAC addresses, which will cause problems if you
don't
pass a constant MAC address on the command line. If the MAC
address
does change, you will probably need to go into
etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and clean out the old
interfaces, or you will find that eth0 is no longer active.
Jonas
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 16:15 +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> Brendan McNally wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone has any experience of build OS
filesystems on
> > Ubuntu. I've downloaded the UMLBuilder application but it's
only
> > available as an RPM.
> >
> > Would you recommend using a pre-created FS and just
modifying it for my
> > own needs?
> >
> > Brendan
>
> Hi,
>
> it depends on what you're after. If you want to proceed
quickly and have
> something up and running fast, go for a prebuilt FS. It's also
an easy
> way of getting into UML.
> Otherwise you can just build a new one.
>
> Isn't debootstrap available on Ubuntu? That's what i use to
install
> debian into a file container.
>
> Something like this:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=root_fs bs=1M count=1 seek=750
> mkfs.ext3 -F root_fs
> mount -o loop root_fs /mnt/debinst
> debootstrap etch /mnt/debinst
>
>
> Regards,
> Benedict
>
>
>
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