Re: installing woody -- base*.tgz?
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:50:52PM +0100, schnobs@babylon-kino.de wrote:
> On 6 Nov 2001, at 4:03, Colin Watson wrote:
> > base*.tgz is no longer needed. The boot-floppies build the
> > base system using a program called debootstrap instead.
>
> Ah yes. And from what?
>
> Sorry, maybe I don't see the obvious -- but even in that
> case, please give me a hint. Here's what I did so far, if
> nothing else, at least it may make you smile...
>
> The setup requires me to provide some source in order to
> install the base system, so the content of the floppies
> obviously won't suffice.
Indeed. debootstrap downloads ordinary .deb files from the Debian
archive (the advantage of this is that there's no problem with keeping
the base tarball in sync with the actual distribution) and installs
them. The first couple of packages (dpkg, libc6, etc.) are installed
using special techniques to get the infrastructure there, and then
everything else is just installed with dpkg.
> My current approach to provide the files was to "mirror"
> them on a local machine and export them via nfs. Everytime
> the installation routine complained about a file it needed,
> I went to get it.
> /dists/woody/Release,
> /dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages
> ...
> Now, the installation routine tells me that it is "Calling
> debootstrap", together with a progress bar wich fills
> within a fraction of a second. Then nothing happens for
> about half a minute, eventually it aborts with "couldn't
> download adduser".
If you can't use HTTP or FTP from a full mirror, you'll need to download
the .debs manually and put them in the locations on your mirror
specified by the Packages file. The current list of packages debootstrap
tries to download for i386 are:
adduser apt apt-utils at base-config base-files base-passwd bash
bsdmainutils bsdutils console-common console-data console-tools
console-tools-libs cpio cron debconf debianutils dhcp-client diff dpkg
e2fsprogs ed exim fdutils fileutils findutils gettext-base grep
groff-base gzip hostname ifupdown info ipchains klogd libc6 libcap1
libdb2 libdb3 libgdbmg1 libident libldap2 liblockfile1 libncurses5
libnewt0 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpcap0 libpcre3
libpopt0 libreadline4 libsasl7 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libwrap0 lilo
login logrotate mailx makedev man-db manpages mawk mbr modconf
modutils mount nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin net-tools netbase
netkit-inetd netkit-ping nvi passwd pciutils pcmcia-cs perl-base ppp
pppconfig pppoe procps psmisc sed setserial shellutils slang1 sysklogd
syslinux sysvinit tar tasksel tcpd telnet textutils util-linux
whiptail
I believe that there's a way to download a single tarball of all of
these .debs to make the job easier, but I'm afraid I don't know the
details. Search the mailing list archives (e.g. debian-boot) for
"basedebs.tgz".
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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