errata corrige :
When the first stage of the debootstrap ended,I found a directory on the
/,called "chimaera-armhf" with a lot of files inside (including the
directory called "debootstrap". Then I tried to execute the second stage of
the bootstrapping issuing this command :
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:11 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2008@???>
wrote:
> I've completed the first stage of the debootstrap using this command :
>
> debootstrap --foreign --arch armhf chimaera /chimaera-armhf
> http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ chimaera
>
> When the first stage of the debootstrap ended,I found a directory on the
> desktop,called "chimaera" with a lot of files inside (including the
> directory called "debootstrap". Then I tried to execute the second stage of
> the bootstrapping issuing this command :
>
> sudo chroot /chimaera-armhf debootstrap --second-stage
>
> unfortunately it does not work :
>
> sudo chroot /chimaera-armhf/debootstrap --second-stage
>
> chroot : failed to run command '--second-stage' : no such file or directory
>
> Why this error ? on /chimaera-armhf I have a directory called
> "debootstrap" and inside it there are the following files :
>
> arch
> base
> debian-common
> debootstrap
> debootstrap.log
> debpaths
> deburis
> functions
> mirror
> required
> suite
> suite-script
>
> thanks.
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 6:27 PM Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>
>> Le 20/06/2023 à 16:52, Mario Marietto via Dng a écrit :
>> > I'm going to install devuan chimera on my PC (cpu intel I9,64 bit).
>> > Later I want to debootstrap the correct version of devuan for arm-hf /
>> > armel. Can you tell me if this command will work when I will be
>> > running devuan ? thanks. I prefer to discover things by doing most of
>> > the time than by reading from a lot of confused sources,if the topic
>> > is very technical. Please understand me.
>> >
>> > debootstrap --arch armhf chimaera /mnt http://deb.devuan.org/merged/
>> > chimaera
>>
>> IIUC you are trying to install Debian/Devuan on a disk meant to be
>> used to boot your arm cpu, and you are doing this on an x86-64 (amd64 in
>> Debian parlance). This is one of the good feature of debootstap, but it
>> needs some expertise.
>>
>> debootstrap is made of two stages:
>>
>> 1) download and unpack critical executable binaries which are
>> needed to "bootstrap" the installation
>>
>> 2) execute these binaries, which will actually "apt-get install" a
>> minimal system.
>>
>> What you are doing is trying to perform the two stages.It will fail
>> because these executable are meant to be executed by an arm cpu, not by
>> the x86-64.
>>
>> What you need to do is to execute the two steps separately:
>>
>> 1) on your intel x86-64, execute the 1st step only with the
>> following command (don't ommit the --foreign):
>>
>> debootstrap --foreign --arch armhf chimaera /mnt
>> http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ chimaera
>>
>> 2) Mount the disk on the arm machine and, from there, execute:
>>
>> sudo chroot /mnt debootstrap --second-stage
>>
>> Maybe it is /mnt/bin/debootstrap. Check the path before. After
>> that, you should have a usable minimal userland on this disk and you
>> might chroot /bin/sh, and, from there, apt-get more stuff, like bash,
>> which is much more comfortable than dash for interactive use. Installing
>> and booting a kernel is another story.
>>
>> Hope it helps.
>>
>> -- Didier
>>
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>
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