Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

[John Klos <john@klos.com>]

Hi,

> > I would like to get a tarball (or tarballs) of a Debian distro for use on
> > a NetBSD system. However, I cannot find any place to download tarballs; on
> > the ftp server, I see, for instance, tools in
>
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r1a/main/disks-m68k/base-images-current/basedebs.tar
>
> In the 'disks-arch' directory you should find base-tarballs. These are
> copied to the root directory on installation as a starting point during
> install.

> However, this is not the recommended way to install debian.
> Your best option, if you do not want to download too much, is
> downloading the floppy images (or if it's available for m68k a mini
> cd-image) and installing from that.

But I am not looking for installation files. I'd like to get an m68k
Debian tree into a directory on an m68k NetBSD system so I can test
NetBSD's Linux ABI emulation.

I did find the base2_2.tgz file, but is there anything newer?

> > What do you people do for chroots?
>
> Usually I just copy those few files I need in a chroot manually, there's
> no need to have a full environment there, only some minimal device
> files, libraries and one or two binaries.

Chicken-and-egg problem.

I can do this with base2_2.tgz, but I'm surprised that such a file isn't
available for the latest stable release. Is there a reason for this that
anyone knows of?

Thanks,
John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs