Re: Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora (SOLVED by ensuring PATH set for sudo/root)
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:50 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
> El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 10:41 +0100, michael escribió:
> > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:17 +0100, michael wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > here we go, just reran:
> >
> > mkb@veri:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch amd64 etch /debian_chroot/
> > http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
> > Password:
> > I: Retrieving Release
> [...]
> > W: Failure trying to run: chroot /debian_chroot mount -t proc proc /proc
> >
> > Just to clarify I'm doing this since I wish to install Debian (as the
> > main and then only) Linux on the machine, but when tried the netinst it
> > wasn't happy with the CDROM.
> >
>
> I tought it would show something useful. I remember there was a log file
> somewhere in /target/debootstrap, maybe it contains a more descriptive
> error.
>
Just to be sure, I've su to root, ensure 'chroot' is in its path and
tried again and now get a different but more informative error (see
below). I guess it was right in saying it couldn't run chroot since on
Fedora /usr/sbin/chroot wasn't in the path, so thanks for pointing that
out.
So, now the error appears to be:
W: Failure trying to run: chroot /debian_chroot dpkg --force-depends
--install var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_4_amd64.deb
var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.5.11_amd64.deb
[root@veri mkb]#
I can't find a /target, either in the Fedora or the chroot
'things' (what is the right word?)
but /debian_chroot/debootstrap/debootstrap.log contains:
pkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 2 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin
and /sbin.
/usr/share/debootstrap/functions: line 5: echo: write error: Broken pipe
So I added /sbin to the PATH (for ldconfig but can't locate
start-stop-daemon), presuming it's Fedora's and not the
chroot's /sbin/ldconfig that's required, and tried again, this time
giving the welcome:
I: Base system installed successfully.
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