On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 03:41:51PM +0100, dev1fanboy wrote:

> When you say installed debootstrap on a new disk, you mean the host
> OS? What architecture is the host and the 'target' disk, are they
> different?

Sorry I was not clearer. I meant debootstrap installed a base system on
a new disk.

   # debootstrap --no-check-gpg jessie /mnt/debinst   \
         https://packages.devuan.org/devuan

The host, my currently running machine, runs debootstrap, targetting a
new partitioned disk mounted on /mnt/debinst. I'm assuming debootstrap
can be run anywhere, and it installs a base system wherever it is told
to do it. Years ago I did cross installations, but the process has
gotten a lot more complicated.

Haines Brown