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Author: aitor
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] devuan and debootstrap
On 12/5/20 8:33 PM, aitor wrote:
>
> Hi again Haines,
>
> On 12/5/20 6:32 PM, aitor wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 12/5/20 12:52 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
>>> I was going to install default Beowulf (Beowult 3.0 ?) but is there
>>> any way I can use deboostrap to access Beowulf 3.1 directly to install
>>> it?
>> If you need to specify several mirrors -this seems to be the case
>> considering the addition of beowulf-proposed-updates-, you might give
>> a try to mmdebstrap:
>>
>> https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/eoan/man1/mmdebstrap.1.html
>> <https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/eoan/man1/mmdebstrap.1.html>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Aitor.
>>
> As your request, and due to the recent changes in some critical
> packages like eudev, init, init-system-helpers... i decided to build
> some images
> for testing purposes using the live-sdk, which uses debootstrap at the
> same:
>
> https://www.gnuinos.org/Devuan%20Drafts/core/
> <https://www.gnuinos.org/Devuan%20Drafts/core/>
>
> You can also build your own by the following way. Download the tarball
> from this link:
>
> https://www.gnuinos.org/live-sdk <https://www.gnuinos.org/live-sdk>
>
> Install the dependencies:
>
> # apt-get install zsh cgpt xz-utils gzip schroot debootstrap curl
> rsync squashfs-tools sudo debmirror \
> reprepro wget xorriso isolinux patch dialog sed cpio syslinux
> grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32-bin
>
> Go into the parent directory and build a core image of Devuan 3.1
> (debootstrap plus a few packages) as follows:
>
> $ sudo su
>
> # zsh -f
>
> # source sdk
>
> # build_iso_dist
>
> The download process may fail fetching one or another package time to
> time. If the case arises, remove the
> "tmp" and the "log" folders, exit and start all the steps again from
> the very begining. At the end, you'll find the
> resulting iso image in a folder named "dist".
>
> Just in case you interrupt the build process, run the following command:
>
> # devprocsys umount $strapdir
>
> This will unmount some partitions like /proc, /sys... To understand
> this, have a look at the following screenshot:
>
> https://www.gnuinos.org/screenshots/Screenshot_2020-12-05_19-28-07.png
> <https://www.gnuinos.org/screenshots/Screenshot_2020-12-05_19-28-07.png>
>
> I would like to make clear that this is not the *official* live-sdk
> used by devuan, but a fork used for the builds of gnuinos. And it
> includes as a bonus
> simple-netaid (just run simple-netaid-cdk as root). I'm still not
> clear at this point, but its daemon might cause some delay during the
> shutdown,
> even though"service stop/restart snetaid"are responding inmediatelly
> for me, which makes me hesitate. Anyway, you can remove it if so you
> wish.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aitor.
>

Oops, I see more updates in d1g by fsmithred:

http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=26112#p26112
<http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=26112#p26112>

Aitor.