Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Mon, 23 May 2022, Antonino Saetta wrote:

> Hi, guys
>
> As requested I'm breaking down which files I've used:
>
> - For the DVD installation, I
> used https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/8.11.1/amd64/iso-dvd/
> <https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/8.11.1/amd64/iso-dvd/>
>
> - For the CD,
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/8.11.1/amd64/iso-cd/
>
> - For the NET, simply that from the first line here:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/
>
> I've also tried through some Live images (
> https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/8.11.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/,
> standard and GNOME), but still the same issues as mentioned in the initial
> post...
>
> Finally I've texted VirtualBox but they claim they can't help because the
> version I'm using is out of date (but it's the most recent I can use).
>
> If I can't solve this by tomorrow, I'll look at Debian Stretch (as that's
> still lighter than Bullseye) and see if I can at least  manage to work with
> that...
>
> Thanks for all the help!

Have you tried debootstrap? I have my own system for installing and I
can still install a minimal Jessie system.

I have the following in my scripts:

jessie_sources()
{
  cat <<EOF
Types: deb
URIs: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
Suites: jessie
Components: main

Types: deb
URIs: http://security.debian.org
Suites: jessie/updates
Components: main

Types: deb-src
URIs: http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian
Suites: jessie
Components: main

Types: deb-src
URIs: http://security.debian.org
Suites: jessie/updates
Components: main

EOF
}

jessie_sources_list()
{
  cat <<EOF
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main

deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb-src http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main

EOF
}

The former is used to bootstrap the packages to the point where I can
chroot to a jessie image and the latter is what jessie needs.

There's no reason to have both except that I added jessie to my
bootstrap system after it was working for stretch+ so I had to add
jessie_sources_list as a special case

(N.B. I don't use debootstrap for this but I'd assume debootstrap will
still work. I have my own system, that I'm happy to share but it's still
not in a very clean state for others to build on - and that's unlikely
to change soon. It's based on the idea of "Essential on a Diet" and it
bootstraps using just apt (to get the packages, the dependencies, the
install plan and to install everything beyond the point where apt itself
can be run in a chroot) and dpkg to unpack and install up to that point.
It can handle armel, i386, and amd64 for Jessie)

Tim.