Re: Debian on Zaurus status?

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:19:31PM -0800, Carl Witty wrote:

> The Debian packages debootstrap, rootstrap, and pbuilder all support the
> creation of chroot's or of disk images.  I've never tried any of them;
> judging from the package descriptions, none sounds like exactly what you
> want (either they build a chroot, rather than a disk image; or they
> expect to run programs inside the image), but they might be a good
> starting point.

rootstrap uses UML, and so can only create images for i386.  pbuilder uses
debootstrap to create a chroot, and then its core functionality is using
that environment to build packages.

If someone were interested in creating a tool to unpack debs on a host
system for later configuration on the Zaurus, that would probably be
possible.  I believe one of the existing distributions (OZ?) configures
packages on the first boot.

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 - mdz