Thread: Request --- Easy Debian Server Edition
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jackburton is offline jackburton
2010-12-03 , 19:51
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#22
Originally Posted by qole View Post
If you insist on building your very own image from scratch, you can go to this page and follow the very brief instructions under "Creating a EABI chroot using debootstrap".
Qole, I found it easier just to use your existing easy-debian image to build my own image directly on the N900.

I am using a 2nd ext2 partition on microsd card (1st partition is fat so N900 doesn't complain).

The steps go something like this:
  1. sudo debian
  2. mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /mnt/debian
  3. apt-get whatever you need according to:
    http://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap
  4. copy /etc/passwd and /etc/group into chroot
  5. modify and use easy-chroot scripts to chroot into fresh image

This is a lot easier than dealing with images and qemu and what-not.
 

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