Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora
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From: Gabriel Parrondo on 1 Jul 2008 05:10 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. > -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: gabrielp(a)xmpp.us "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: michael on 1 Jul 2008 05:20 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: michael on 1 Jul 2008 05:50 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(a)veri:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch amd64 etch /debian_chroot/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ Password: I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I: Checking component main on http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian... I: Retrieving adduser I: Validating adduser I: Retrieving apt I: Validating apt {lots more} I: Extracting sysv-rc... I: Extracting sysvinit... I: Extracting sysvinit-utils... I: Extracting tar... I: Extracting tzdata... I: Extracting util-linux... I: Extracting zlib1g... 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. Ta, M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Gabriel Parrondo on 1 Jul 2008 06:00 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(a)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. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: gabrielp(a)xmpp.us "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice."
From: Gabriel Parrondo on 1 Jul 2008 06:00 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(a)veri:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch amd64 etch /debian_chroot/ > http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ > Password: [...] > W: Failure trying to run: chroot /debian_chroot mount -t proc proc /proc > Also, what's the output of 'sudo chroot /debian_chroot mount -t proc proc /proc' ? [...] -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: gabrielp(a)xmpp.us "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice."
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