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Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 10:47:20 EST
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable
> external USB hard disk
Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on that mobile disk. I chrooted to that disk (using the procedure from the debootstrap manpage) and installed a few additional packages with aptitude. That sort of worked (there were gazillions of error messages about Perl falling back to the C locale or some such stuff -- don't know if that matters). Also what puzzled me was that the chroot system immediately wanted to upgrade many packages -- I mean, all packages had come fresh off the same server minutes ago.
Anyway, I then rebooted the PC and tried to boot from the USB disk but that didn't work.
Then, back in my normal system, I mounted the USB disk and discovered that it had neither a kernel nor a bootloader installed (that ain't much of the
So to fix that I wanted to chroot into my mounted USB disk again but was rebuffed:
chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Permission denied
WTF? There were no changes to that disk since chroot worked just before the reboot. I also did the "mount proc" spiel, whatever that's for.
Thanks,
--D.
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