Server :: Using Debootstrap To Install Foreign System
Feb 9, 2010
At work they gave me the following task (and i need some help from you guys!):At work we have a normal PC running Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit), which works good.We also have a LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini v2, which runs embedded Linux (RedHat), but is so trimmed down, you can't use the disk we would like to use it.The task is this: On the X86 machine, make a bootable image for the ARM architecture and write it to a harddisk (which fits the LaCie offc.) so it can boot off it.Now i have done some investigation, but don't know how to combine it all:
- I can use debootstrap to create a minimal Debian system, but there comes the problem, you can't chroot into a foreign created system (i.e. X86 cannot chroot into ARM system).
- I can use QEMU, which can emulate a ARM processor, but can i use the image that QEMU uses as a normal image for a harddisk, so it would boot off it (when using dd to write it to a real harddisk)?
- Current kernels support the LaCie hardware (Marvell chipset)
- I know how to use tools such as dd, so if the image is generated i can write it to disk and have the LaCie boot from it.
The LaCie box has the following: 1 ARM9 ARMv5TEJ (266 MHz) CPU with 64 Mb RAM, Gigabit network controller and 1 usb host port, internal there is a sata port obviously.The only thing i want at the moment is to have the LaCie boot Debian and i can SSH into it, from there the rest is easy as pie.Is someone willing to help me accomplish this task? It would seriously mean and help alot!If all goes well and if i get all things up and running i would like to make a Howto of it and place that here, maybe it will be of some use !
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Aug 7, 2010
I've been trying to install Ubuntu server 10.04 and I keep getting a Debootstrap warning. Warning: file:///cdrom/pool/main/p/plymouth/libplymouth2_0.8.2-2ubuntu2_i386.deb was corrupt. I am then presented with options to Continue or Go Back. Whichever option I choose, the installer keeps giving me Deboostrap warnings. I've tried to find solutions online and I've done the CD integrity test as well as a memory test. I've passed both. i am installing this on a Dell Dimension 8400 machine with 1 GB RAM and a 80 GB HDD.
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Jul 19, 2011
I am trying to install Wheezy testing i386 using netinstall .iso disk.
After the disk partition stage and while in the 'Install the base system' stage I get the message;
Debootstrap error:
The following error occurred: The bzcat is not available on the system Check /var/log/syslog or see virtual console 4 the details.
I have over the past couple of months downloaded three daily builds of testing and the md5sums are good on all of them yet I have the same problem with each disk.
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May 3, 2010
I only want spellchecking, calendar and currency to be typical for Poland (this is where I currently live), Ubuntu itself (interface, applications, manuals) should be in English - I don't understand Polish well enough.In 9.10 I used to check Polish spellchecking (translations were checked for install automatically but you couldn't tell unless you chose another language and then Polish again) and uncheck the translations. It allowed for setting locale (calendar/currency) to Polish and also keep the spellchecking. Now it's buggy: I can do a fresh install of Ubuntu but can't set Polish spellchecking, calendar (it starts from Monday), currency (it's PLN/zł) and keep the system itself in English. What I do wrong?
1. Fresh install
2. System -> Administration -> Language Support
3. Language -> Install / Remove Languages
4. Find Polish and select ONLY: Spellchecking and writing aids
5. Text -> Display numbers, dates and currency amounts in: Polish
Confirm, reboot and... Bump! I've got Polish translations in several places, e.g.:If I upgrade any software, it is in Polish. Firefox (or Namoroka) locale changes to "pl,en" and its plug-ins are in Polish by default.
After I uninstall Polish translations (and leave spellchecking and writing aids as it was) there's a problem with locale (Polish locale is removed along with translations), besides, system doesn't actually change back to English and newly installed applications either crash with errors or install in Polish.
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Jun 18, 2009
I am running a spam filter on debian lenny 5.1 with postfix, amavis-new, spamassassin, and clamav. It works pretty well but I would like to finish tweaking it to minimize the mail getting quarantined. It really isn't quarantining anything that isn't spam, except for an occasional list mailer. However, the quarantine is huge, and takes a while to go through. I noticed that much of the spam is coming from foreign country tld's like .cz is there anyway to have postfix run a check on the header and if the email, or smtp origination is from a server from a foreign tld have it just rejected. I can whitelist anything if need be in the future but as of now we don't do any business overseas and don't need to worry about blocking legit email.
I think this should be possible, however, I am unsure of the syntax for the file, where to put it and if wildcards are possible in domain blocking like
Code:
*.cz REJECT
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Mar 10, 2010
I have an etch-based Xen server that has several Xen domU's on it. All the domU's are etch or lenny based, but I'd like to install a karmic guest. I use xen-tools to install my domU's - e.g., xen-create-image --debootstrap <etc.>After much googling, I've found bits and pieces of info that have gotten me closer to the goal, but the debootstrap script I have is for hoary (I think etch came with this), and I'm pretty sure this won't work.
If you have been able to successfully install a Karmic guest on an etch or lenny host, I'd be very grateful for pointers.
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Dec 23, 2009
Installing a F12 on a new 500gb SCSI disk.I had a previous SEPARATE disk with a stable F9 on it including its OWN SWAP space.After installing F12 to boot from the new disk it installed. When rebooted crashed with an Fdisk type problem ... Even though the entire O.S. was supposed to be separately installed on SCSI 500.. After many frustrating hours of why oh why? it appears as though the F12 installation by default grabs any allocated "SWAP" space on any allocated DISK.As an other O.S. had used that SWAP for itself (Which it has every right to do) Why then did F12 pick it up?? and Use it in /etc/fstab...Then crash as a result??
Removing the offending "SWAP" entry from /etc/fstab install solved the problem.But my question remains ?? Why Does F12 install pick up "foreign SWAP space"?
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Jan 25, 2011
I will be relocating to a permanent residence sometime in the next year or two. I've recently begun thinking about the best way to implement a home-based network. It occurred to me that the most elegant solution might be the use of VM technology to eliminate as much hardware and wiring as possible.My thinking is this: Install a multi-core system and configure it to run several VMs, one each for a firewall, a caching proxy server, a mail server, a web server. Additionally, I would like to run 2-4 VMs as remote (RDP)workstations, using diskless workstations to boot the VMs over powerline ethernet.The latest powerline technology (available later this year) will allow multiple devices on a residential circuit operating at near gigabit speed, just like legacy wired networks.
In theory, the above would allow me to consolidate everything but the disklessworkstations on a single server and eliminate all wired (and wireless) connections except the broadband connection to the Internet and the cabling to the nearest power outlets. It appears technically possible, but I'm not sure about the various virtual connections among VMs. In theory, each VM should be able to communicate with the other as if it was on the same network via the server data bus, but what about setting up firewall zones? Any internal I/O bandwidth bottlenecks? Any other potential "gotchas", caveats, issues? (Other than the obvious requirement of having enough CPU and RAM).Any thoughts or observations welcome, especially if they are from real world experience in a VM environment. BTW--in case you're wondering why I'm posting here, it's because I run Debian on all my workstations/servers (running VirtualBox as a VM for Windows XP on one workstation).
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Nov 21, 2015
first time with debootstrap, i followed: [URL] the error i get on boot looks like this:
Code: Select all [URL]
they did not mention lvm speficically so i just installed lvm2 inside the chroot and created my fstab like this:
Code: Select all/dev/mapper/debian--unstable-root / ext4Â Â errors=remount-ro 0Â Â Â Â 1
/dev/mapper/debian--unstable-home /home ext4  defaults    0    2
/dev/mapper/debian--unstable-tmp /tmp    ext4  defaults    0    2
/dev/mapper/debian--unstable-var /var  ext4  defaults    0    2
Having one mounted from jessie looks like this:
Code: Select all/dev/mapper/debian--unstable-root on /home/julius/other-systems/debian-unstable type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
So I guess the fstab is correct
I already tried to "refresh" the inittab with:
Code: Select allupdate-initramfs -u
command ran ok, but no change at boot.
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Aug 26, 2010
Im currently installing debian on my old server, its a 64bit computer, so i've downloaded the amd64 for this project. But under the Basis Installation, of this cd image, im getting a debootstrap warning every time i want to continue the installation, the last warning i remember was something coreutils_6.10-6_amd64.deb (Something like that, not totaly sure), and im lost, can't find anything closely related to the subject.
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Aug 13, 2010
I just did a simple debootstrap lenny /opt/lenny-chroot http://fpt.de.debian.org/debian There is no vmlinuz or initramfs under /opt/lenny-chroot/boot. What would be the next minimalistic necessary step to get it there?
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Feb 11, 2010
For my dissertation I created a debootstrap install of Lenny. When I boot this system I just can login with root without a password. When I want to ssh this machine with the debootstrap install I can't just login with root. I'm asked for a password which I don't have.
So I created one with passwd root and after that I can connect to the machine with ssh and the given password. But the machine still logs in with without a password.
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Aug 1, 2011
I am trying to run "sudo pbuilder create" where it runs debootstrap. Then it says:
Code:
I: Checking component main on http://bg.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu. Problem is that this is the old repo I've used. After installing pbuilder and the other dpkg essential packages I've run "sudo pbuilder create", noticed the message of the repo and since I am no longer in Bulgaria, interrupted the script, went to synaptic and changed the repo from there (now is http://archive.linux.duke.edu/ubuntu/). Even rebooted. Double-checked in synaptic the repo is still changed, grepped the files in /etc/apt for "bg" and all results were commented. I ran again "sudo pbuilder create" and it still reports the old repo.
So where does debootstrap reads the repo setting from and how to fix it?
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Sep 7, 2010
I'm running Karmic Desktop Live CD from a USB stick, and trying to install Ubuntu to a hard disk using debootstrap I get these errors:
$ sudo debootstrap karmic /dir file:///cdrom/
Quote:
I: Retrieving Release
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
W: Failure trying to run: chroot /dir mount -t proc proc /proc
[Code].....
I've read this bug report: [URL] basically, the discussion states that Desktop CD can not be used as package source for debootstrapping, I understand it is because of different file structure than the required for a repository, but would like to know more specific information about it, and if possible, how could I use the CD as package source for debootstrap?
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Feb 26, 2011
I am installing Wheeze using netinstall.
After the partition step, the installation gives me the following error: Debootsrap Error.
Invalid Release file: no entry for main/binary-amd64/Packages
I have tried several iso's with several cd's but nothing is working.
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Feb 16, 2011
Some time back I posted a question about using a Greek keyboard since I'm trying to improve my limited Greek. Someone suggested a way of switching between the English and Greek desktop for Ubuntu. I tried that but it didn't work so well so I removed it. But I just tried to use the Terminal to install something and it's all in Greek!!! Now while I can read some of it my skills are not that good and I need it back in English again... Quickly actually! How do I go about removing the Greek from my terminal? Everything else on my system is in English so I can't figure why the terminal is stuck there.
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May 30, 2011
I found this IP address in my hosts.allowQuote:ALL: 119.42.68.232I cannot find any other evidence of intrusion.
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Oct 18, 2010
In this case its the french accented e that is getting translated:[test]$ touch dd touch: cannot touch `351dd': No such file or directory the thing is the folder test is an smb mount. The windows server which is dropping files into it is able to make the file visible but the app running on the linux can't fetch it because the name is 'unexpected'if I create a file anywhere else e.g. in /tmp/ with the name response.txt it is fine. When I ls I see r?sponse.Can you advise me if I should be looking at the smb config AND the host config and give me some pointers as to where to get started trying to solve this.
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Jul 8, 2010
I found out that I was trying to play foreign produced music cd's (japan) and it just won't see the cd...any way around this problem? I've tried a number of the music players but nothing.
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Dec 28, 2010
So I opened a terminal and fired up netcat.I only wanted to view the Foreign Ip Addresses so I used
Code:
netstat --tcp --numeric | cut -c 45-65
and that gave me[code]...
There are two things that I am trying to accomplish here. The first is that I would like to "cut" the first three horizontal lines so that the output is only ip addresses.I tried tail but the number of different IPs changes so it still gives me those top lines. I tried head but that doesn't seem to give me any output at all.The second thing I would like to do is to filter out duplicate values. For example the output above has 2 duplicate entries of 66.102.7.101:80
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May 12, 2010
Netstat has always confused me. I ype netstat -pl and get this:
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Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 localhost:ipp *:* LISTEN 1476/cupsd
tcp 0 0 localhost:postgresql *:* LISTEN 13816/postgres
tcp 0 0 *:44223 *:* LISTEN 1288/sshd
tcp6 0 0 localhost:ipp [::]:* LISTEN 1476/cupsd
tcp6 0 0 localhost:postgresql [::]:* LISTEN 13816/postgres
tcp6 0 0 [::]:44223 [::]:* LISTEN 1288/sshd
udp 0 0 *:bootpc *:* 1267/dhclient
I assume that *:* means that any foreign host can connect from any port, but then what does [::]:* mean? and localhost:ipp... what port is ipp? Shouldn't ports be numeric?
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Apr 23, 2010
when I'm trying to add a virtual host with a foreign character in the domain name. The foreign character is .
I've read earlier threads where it was said I should puny code it, which then translates to xn--nda
I then created a virtual host, as shown (replaced the real domain with exampl�:
Code:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me@exampl�.com
ServerName exampl�.com
[Code]....
However, apache2 doesn't recognize this when I try to enter the domain, it just shows my 000default.
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May 12, 2010
Can't rename, move or delete files or folders that have a foreign character.
Code:
The file or folder /data/down/done/1999 Taraf de Ha-douks does not exist.
Kubuntu Karmic. Fails in konqueror and dolphin.
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Aug 27, 2010
I want to setup my MySQL database and have MySQL up and running. I sill look for a good editor to add and configure my tables, it appears that MySQL Administrator is the only GUI client available.
But when I try to add a foreign key to one of my tables, there appears to be a problem. Both of my tables are InnoDB and both have a primary key.
-First I choose the tab "Foreign Keys" on my CLIENT table.
-Then I press the green + sign to add a foreign key, it is default named new_fk_constraint.
-I choose my table USER in the Refer.Table dropdownbox
-And then I should be able to match the FK field and the PK field in the box on the right... but this box is empty. Double clicking shows nothing. I only can drag the user_id of the USER table to it, but have no option to select the foreign column.
What the hell is wrong here??? This client is years old and should be really REALLY working IMHO! I was told by a friend that there is no good client available and therefore he is using some Windows program for this...
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Apr 12, 2010
In Windows Word there are combination key strokes to get language accents inserted in the text. How do you get the same thing in Office? I am trying to use foreign phrases in an English document.
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Mar 6, 2011
I have this cool bash script that I worked hard on. But it broke down when it can across files that had non-English characters. Another small problem was getting it to descend into a directory. If it renamed a directory it would not descend into that dir to rename the other files. I would have to run the script twice on the same directory.
Here is the script:
Code:
find -type d -o -regextype egrep -iregex '(.*.ogg|.*.mp3|.*.wav)' | while read s
do
rename -v 'y/A-Z/a-z/' "$s"
done
find -type d -o -regextype egrep -iregex '(.*.ogg|.*.mp3|.*.wav)' | while read n
do
rename -v 's/ /_/g' "$n"
done
A French name like this:
Code:
Chateau De Sable (imagine accents above the letter a)
became this:
Code:
ch303242tea_de_sable
This is not what I wanted.
Why would the script not descend into a directory after it was renamed?
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Dec 22, 2010
Recently I am logging the packets that are supposedly INVALID and I found out that I am dropping a lot of packets that seem legitimate (in the sense that they are clients that are allowed to contact us).
Code:
:invalid - [0:0]
-A invalid -j LOG --log-prefix "[DROP INVALID] : " --log-tcp-options --log-ip-options
-A invalid -j DROP
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
[Code]...
I would like to know If I can tell a complaining client that his dual-WAN solution is not behaving properly.Should such a dual WAN-router spoof its IP to the one that initiated the connection? And what happens if these packets are not dropped? Will they be accepted by the application or does it depend on the application? It sounds like a security risk if it does. It seems to me those packets will be ignored anyway by the application Netfilter's manual says that it's safe to drop these packets.
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Apr 20, 2011
Could you possible to install UDB DB2 8.2 install on redhat linux 5 .. what is the procedure please reply are send me the installation link..
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Sep 5, 2009
I am new to linux
I wanted to know is it possible to install Sql server 2005 or higher ver. on redhat linux.
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Sep 6, 2011
I purchased an older Dell (p4 1.8G 256M) just to run some low demand programs. They don't require a GUI - just ssh/cli type of access. will be a server type - no kb or monitor. Can someone give me some pointers where to start at? I've never done a Debian install - the install process may address these questions - but figured I would throw it out here. I've used Ubuntu for several years now but I doubt that it would be the best distro for a legacy system....
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