Re: Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:06 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
> El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 09:46 +0100, michael escribió:
> > I am trying to install Debian Etch on a box that already has Fedora
> > but when using debootstrap I get the message
> >
> > Installer error: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc
> > proc /proc
> >
> > There are more details below but could somebody enlighten me as to
> > its meaning and what's going wrong? Ta, M
> >
> > Details: Fedora fc7 box is Core2 Duo with LVM, make a new partition /
> > debian_chroot, install debootstrap using yum, run debootstrap to
> > install etch for arch amd64 using UK mirror. Installs/verifies many
> > packages then gives above error. /var/log/messages is empty (!).
> >
>
> What parameters are you passing to debootstrap? It should be something
> like:
> debootstrap etch /debian_chroot http://somemirror/debian
>
> If that's correct, you should make sure that you're running it as root
> and the chroot binary is in PATH ('which chroot').
>
>
> If that doesn't help, please copy the exact error you're receiving.
>
fedora$ sudo /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch amd64 etch /debian_chroot/
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
The error was as above! And was the last thing the debootstrap issued.
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