Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:20PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> 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).

yes, that's normal (at least in my experience, it's been a while since I used it). There are no locales set up on the new system yet...

> 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.

That's interesting. What target did you install? you can specify what version to install. Perhaps you installed an older version than what was subsequently specified in sources.list?

>
> 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

yeah. debootstrap is architecture independent, so you have to install a kernel and bootloader.  

> 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

hmmm... what user tried to chroot?

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