[debian-non-standard] debootstrap from x86 to mipsel

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Fri Sep 5 20:25:52 CEST 2008


Tomasz Orłowski schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski pisze:
>> I just received an answer from a Debian maintainer that it's not 
>> possible to do a second stage in a foreign architecture environment.
>>
> Hi mate, sorry for late reply but I was on hols.
> Very strange answer from him. I don't get what will be a reason of 
> having this option without possibility to do 2nd stage on foreign arch - 
> Completely useless :)
> I really got it working. I've even documented all of commands with 
> outputs, because I'm using flashed Asus box as a part of my M.S. thesis, 
> so I need to have it documented :)
> 
> After first step of debootstrap on x86 I've compiled my own image with 
> USB and ext3 support, but what is most important, you have to use swap 
> to perform 2nd stage.
> Without it, 2nd stage was failing for me with 16MB enabled (my box is 
> hanging with 32MB enabled).
> 
> After falshing,booting, enabling swap and mounting USB stick, I've 
> simply run:
> 
> chroot /mnt/usbstick/ /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage

But you didn't run the second stage in a foreign environment: it was 
started in the native one.


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