Re: debootstrap's basic package list

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> > Where can I find a package list for sarge base system? I've search
> > around, but without much luck.
> 
> debootstrap defines the base system
> (/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sarge). If you've run it, that's it.

Thanks. This confirms that debootstrap only installed about half the
packages it downloaded.

I make slow progress by fiddling and installing packages missed by
debootstrap, but it seems the packages have to be downloaded from on
line rather than use the packages in apt archives. 

I after configuring, I findally get to the pont of installing a
kernel, and here again, the installation failed because it could not
find a file:   

  setting up kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386 (2.6.7-2) ...
  /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: /dev/fd  does not exist
  Failed to create initrd image
  dpkg: error processing kernel-image...
  ...

  :\# ls -l /dev/fd
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2004-08-22 12:48 /dev/fd -> /proc/self/fd

I had the impression that there's nothing in /proc until I've
booted the disk. In a booted system, this /proc/self/fd is itself a
symlink and it gets complicated;; I'm at a loss how to proceed.

Haines Brown