Re: fdisk_and_dbootstrap_problem

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

martellif@supereva.it writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto:
>
>>Jacek Achremowicz <mfachrem@cyf-kr.edu.pl> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Dear Debian Users,
>>>
>>>How to do something like:
>>>
>>>'debootstrap --arch amd64 sarge /pure64/ http://amd64.debian.net/debian-
>>>amd64/'
>>>
>>>without internet connection, i.e from DVD?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>mount /cdrom
>>debootstrap --arch amd64 sarge /pure64/ file:///cdrom/
>>
>>
>
> I'm on sarge amd64, I've Debian 3.2 etch dvd set. Deboostrap tells me
> that it can't find etch script:
>
> root@darkstar:/mnt# debootstrap --arch amd64 etch /mnt/testing/
> file:///mnt/cdrom/
> E: No such script: /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/etch
> root@darkstar:/mnt# v /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/
> total 64
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root 1 Mar 19 07:35 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root 1 Mar 19 07:35 .
> -rw-r--r--  1 root 3 Mar  1  2005 slink
> -rw-r--r--  1 root 4 Mar  1  2005 potato
> -rw-r--r--  1 root 6 Mar  1  2005 sarge.buildd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root 6 Mar  1  2005 sid.buildd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root 6 Mar  1  2005 woody.buildd
> -rw-r--r--  1 root 8 Mar  1  2005 woody
> -rw-r--r--  1 root 9 Mar  1  2005 sarge
> -rw-r--r--  1 root 9 Mar  1  2005 sid
> root@darkstar:/mnt#
>
>
> Is it possible to install etch this way? What should I do?
>
> Thank you very much for any reply.

Install the debootstrap or cdebootstrap from etch.

MfG
        Goswin