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Re: *WHY* does Debootstrap wiki page point Users to Ubuntu?



Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, All :)
>
> Please forgive me if I have simply missed the memo where we bought
> Ubuntu or Ubuntu bought Debian to where this is an appropriate move.
>
> So what had had happened was... I've been attempting to debootstrap
> DEBIAN Stretch for a few weeks now. It's been failing MISERABLY. This
> is the first time it has been like this in the couple years I've been
> debootstrap'ing Debian.
>
> #1 is chroot becomes a user called "I have no name!" instead of root.
>
> #2 is apt-get fails, says it doesn't exist at all, so nothing else is
> possible re growing the new setup. I a-sume that may be a secondary
> issue that would clear up when user "I have no name!" gets over
> his/her identity crisis.
>

Did the debootstrap invocation produce any errors?  A pointer to full
output would be useful.  Inability to map uid 0 to a username could
indicate a problem with /etc/nsswitch.conf or /etc/passwd.  Do you have
these files inside the chroot?

Missing apt-get also seems to indicate that the debootstrap did not go
well.  Do you have sufficient disk space, etc.?

> <snip>

--
regards,
kushal


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