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How-to chroot into Debian

Files needed

Installing steps

  1. mkdir /mnt/HD_a2/work && cd /mnt/HD_a2/work
  2. ln -s /mnt/HD_a2/bzip2 /mnt/HD_a2/bzcat
  3. /mnt/HD_a2/bzcat debootstrap-0.3.3.1_uclibc_powerpc.tar.bz2 | /mnt/HD_a2/tar -xvf -
  4. export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=`pwd`/usr/lib/debootstrap
  5. Extract busybox-1.00.tgz and add extracted bin and sbin directory to a PATH. For example export PATH=/mnt/HD_a2/bin:/mnt/HD_a2/sbin:$PATH
  6. /mnt/HD_a2/bin/sh ./usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch powerpc sid /mnt/HD_a2/debian http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian
  7. cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/HD_a2/debian/etc/resolv.conf
  8. mount -t proc proc /mnt/HD_a2/debian/proc
  9. cd /
  10. chroot /mnt/HD_a2/debian /bin/bash
  11. apt-get update
  12. apt-get install locales
  13. dpkg-reconfigure locales
  14. passwd root
  15. apt-get install dropbear
  16. apt-get install hotplug

/etc/fstab

/dev/sda3               /               ext3            noatime                 0 0
/dev/sda1               none            swap            sw                      0 0
none                    /proc           proc            defaults                0 0
none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults                0 0

/etc/network/interfaces

mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth0 eth0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.2
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1

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