On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 12:33:53PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:42:25AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: | > On Saturday 31 December 2005 12:13, Miro Dietiker, MD Systems wrote: | > > Since debootstrap is also intended to be executed on a non-debian | > > system to build a debian system (especially for crossplatform), | > > these | > > prerequisites are absolutely needed. I wanted to fetch the | > > dependencies | > > with an automatic script, but needed to complete this list manually. | > | > I have added a list of the required commands in the Installation Guide to | > make it clear that a bit more is required than just /bin/sh, wget and ar. | > > > > About the cross-platform issue: > > > Debootstrap tells to be crossplatform. > > > /usr/share/doc/debootstrap/README.Debian > > I've just checked this, but you are mistaken. This is listed as a _future_ > > feature and thus would not be supported by current debootstrap. > > Ah, but README.Debian was last added ages ago, so now is in fact the > future. Cross-strap support and "intuiting required/base" already exist, > in particular. > > To do a cross-platform install, something like: > > solaris:/$ debootstrap --foreign --arch i386 ... > > [boot into newly installed filesystem] > i386:/$ debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage > > should work. No guarantees, unfortunately. > > HTH. > > Cheers, > aj > I'm still not sure if this ML is there right place for debootstrap questions. I hinted previously[1] it may not be so. That could have scared the original poster away. With this posting gets Miro Dietiker a carbon copy, CC, of the follow-up of his/her debootstrap question. HTH GSt [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg01347.html
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