Now, I'm getting this error.

As you can see, I have tried multiple ways to specify, or default, the
architecture.  I DO have dpkg installed.

root@quixote:/home/marc# /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch=amd64 daedalus
/mnt/ http://deb.devuan.org/merged
E: Unable to execute target architecture
root@quixote:/home/marc# /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch amd64 daedalus
/mnt/ http://deb.devuan.org/merged
E: Unable to execute target architecture
root@quixote:/home/marc# man debootstrap
root@quixote:/home/marc# /usr/sbin/debootstrap daedalus /mnt/
http://deb.devuan.org/merged
E: Unable to execute target architecture

On 8/25/23 10:56, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 10:02:16PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote:
>> With the problems I have been having upgrading a copy of Chimaera to
>> Daedalus (and a few other reasons, as well) I have decided that  a clean
>> install might be best.  I have done installs with debootstrap before, on
>> Debian.  Trying to install Daedalus with the command:
>>
>>     debootstrap --arch amd64 daedalus /mnt/ http://deb.devuan.org/merged
>>
>> results in the error message:
>>
>>     E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/daedalus
>>
>> which appears to be correct.
> You need the version 1.0.123+devuan5 which is in chimaera-proposed-updates.
>
> Alternatively, specify ceres as the last (optional) debootstrap argument. All of
> the Devuan scripts are symlinks to ceres anyway.
>
> Mark