On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:20PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > > > like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable > > external USB hard disk > > Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on > that mobile disk. I chrooted to that disk (using the procedure from the > debootstrap manpage) and installed a few additional packages with aptitude. > That sort of worked (there were gazillions of error messages about Perl > falling back to the C locale or some such stuff -- don't know if that > matters). yes, that's normal (at least in my experience, it's been a while since I used it). There are no locales set up on the new system yet... > Also what puzzled me was that the chroot system immediately wanted > to upgrade many packages -- I mean, all packages had come fresh off the same > server minutes ago. That's interesting. What target did you install? you can specify what version to install. Perhaps you installed an older version than what was subsequently specified in sources.list? > > Anyway, I then rebooted the PC and tried to boot from the USB disk but that > didn't work. > > Then, back in my normal system, I mounted the USB disk and discovered that > it had neither a kernel nor a bootloader installed (that ain't much of the yeah. debootstrap is architecture independent, so you have to install a kernel and bootloader. > So to fix that I wanted to chroot into my mounted USB disk again but was > rebuffed: > > chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Permission denied hmmm... what user tried to chroot? A
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