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tool for creating full Debian-based installations in specific directories.

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How to automate setting up of "keyboard-configuration" package?

I'm writing a script to install Ubuntu 16.04 server into a chroot jail, using debootstrap (on an Ubuntu 16.04 server machine). During the setting up of the keyboard-configuration package it asks for the keyboard type: Setting up…
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What is debootstrap --second-stage for

I just played around with debootstrap and schroot. I'm setting up my environments with debootstrap. I'm not using --second-stage option of debootstrap. When and how do I need to use this option. What does debootstrap do in the second stage?
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How do I create a chroot of an earlier version of Ubuntu?

I'd like to create a virtual instance of the latest LTS so I can test the software I'm writing in a way that more closely matches our production environment. There seem to be many, many different ways of doing this: use debootstrap with schroot;…
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How do I correct this error with debootstrap in Ubuntu Server 12.04.3?

When using the tool xen-create-image I get an error with the debootstrap process. Running root@xen/tmp# debootstrap --arch amd64 precise /tmp/ubuntu I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Release.gpg I: Checking Release signature I: Valid Release…
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How do I add more variants or custom packages to debootstrap?

I have a set of packages that I wish to install along-side the minibase variant in debootstrap. I'm having the hardest time figuring out how to customize variants so that more than just the base is installed in a chroot when debootstrap is run. Any…
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Latest security updates with debootstrap?

After running debootstrap I have to chroot into the system and run # apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to apply security updates. Is it possible for debootstrap to use the latest packages, so I don't have to update the system manually afterwards?
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Is there a way to have Debootstrap automatically configure locales?

I like to use Debootstrap for making sparse systems (usually a base for something embedded) or paravirtualized Xen guests. I'm familiar with how to tell Debootstrap what packages I want beyond the typical minimal base, but I have yet to find the…
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debootstrap failing to mount /proc

I have researched this, and none of the answers (so far) on here, nor googling seem to match my problem. Here is the situation: I am running Xubuntu 12.04 as a base install, and am trying to set up a debootstrap chroot install of BackBox 3.01 (also…
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Adding user to chroot environment

I've created a chroot system in my Ubuntu using schroot and debrootstrap, based on minimal ubuntu. However whenever I can't seem to add a new user into this chroot environment. Here is what happens. I enter schroot as root and add a new user…
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How to build packages for Maverick while running Lucid?

I would like to be able to build a package for the Maverick distribution release of Ubuntu, while running the Lucid distribution release. I found this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot which seems to explain what I would like to do.…
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What is the function of bootstrap.log?

I encountered the existence of a file named bootstrap.log in the /var/log directory when trying to solve a log related problem and when looking at its content I saw that the timestamps are over a year old. It seems to be consisting of a lot…
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How can I fully use the chroot I create with debootstrap on a local machine?

I'm running on a Ubuntu 10.04, and installed an 8.04 version in a directory /stuff/hardy sudo debootstrap --variant buildd --arch i386 hardy /stuff/hardy http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu What I want to do is to get a working environment isolated…
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How to use the mirror option of apt-cacher-ng for debootstrap?

I run debootstrap like this: sudo debootstrap --verbose --arch=amd64 zesty chroot I have already installed apt-cacher-ng. How do I make them work together so that when I run debootstrap multiple times I use the cache instead of repeatedly…
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How to boot from a debootstrap based install?

I would like to boot a testing Ubuntu release from a directory (which contains a debootstrap based install). As far as I understand I just need someway to tell the boot process (initrd scripts?) that it should chroot() into the specified dir…
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dist-upgrade of diskless ubuntu

I am currently PXE booting a bunch a machine, via the diskless function in ubuntu. What is the best practice when upgrading the image from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS? I've currently made a copy of the image with cp -arpv to ensure that i can switch back…
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