Hello, Tor Rune Skoglund wrote: > Hi, > > since the list is too quiet for someone's liking, I thought I inject a > question :) > > Doing some testing here... Have a Gentoo host, and wanting to build a > Debian guest. So what is the really simple, easy, straightforward, > fool-proof, dumbass way of installing a debian guest system? ;) > > Was trying that recipe on the wiki ( > http://linux-vserver.org/Building_Guest_Systems ), but firstly it failed > due to wrong deb location. ("ERROR: Could not download the debootstrap > package from ...") > > So I did edit that /etc/vservers/.defaults/apps/debootstrap/uri file to > point it to > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.40_all.deb > , as it seemed to be suggested, and changing to -d squeeze on the > command line too: > > vserver test build -m debootstrap --context 100 --hostname > test.mydomain.com --interface eth0:10.0.2.100/24 -- -d squeeze -m > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian > > Then, "E: Invalid release, no entry for > main/binary-GenuineIntel/Packages" and more errors. Which might indicate > that the inherited architecture from the Gentoo host is not supported by > Debian. But then: "GeniuneIntel"...??? > > Any pointers before I stay up all night trying to find the solution? I > am really no Debian expert... All you're missing is a -- --arch amd64 or -- --arch i386 at the end of your command line. Non-Debian distributions typically have to specify the architecture, because most distributions have their own idea of what to call them... -- Daniel Hokka Zakrisson