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U25

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Registered: 2025-11-27

Posts: 2  

[SOLVED] Debootstrap Excalibur

Hi there,

I used Debian debootstrap to install Chimaera and Excalibur in directories.
Chimaera works well.
However, Excalibur failed to finalize installation dispute the similar environment.

1 Chimaera
1.1
Download http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/ … n1_all.deb

copy file "ceres" to /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/ as "ceres-devuan"
make the soft links @chimaera @excalibur for "ceres-devuan"

1.2
#sudo debootstrap --include "bash,zsh,wpasupplicant,locales,grub2,wget,curl,dhcpcd5" --arch amd64 chimaera /chroot/chimaera http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ chimaera
...
Base system installed successfully.

Now I can run
sudo chroot /chroot/chimaera /bin/su -l

It works well.

2 Excalibur
The same soft links @chimaera @excalibur for "ceres-devuan".

#sudo debootstrap --include "bash,zsh,wpasupplicant,locales,grub2,wget,curl,dhcpcd5" --arch amd64 excalibur /chroot/excalibur http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ excalibur
...
I: Extracting util-linux...
I: Extracting zlib1g...

At this point it suddenly stop.
No errors, but no complete installation neither.

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Best regards

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,772  

Re: [SOLVED] Debootstrap Excalibur

You have to exclude a few things and then you can add them later.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=47276#p47276

U25

Member

Registered: 2025-11-27

Posts: 2  

Re: [SOLVED] Debootstrap Excalibur

It doesn't  work from Debian Bullseye.
(I doubt if "--exclude" works on Debian correctly nowadays.)

However, it's possible to debootstrap  Chimaera first
and then debootstrap Excalibur from inside chroot Chimaera.

No "--exclude" needed:
#debootstrap  --arch amd64 excalibur /loc_chroot/excalibur http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ excalibur

Works fine and the result can be moved back to the Debian host.

stultumanto

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Registered: 2023-12-12

Posts: 133  

Re: [SOLVED] Debootstrap Excalibur

It doesn't  work from Debian Bullseye.

If you're installing Devuan from Debian (or the other way around) I would recommend using the --foreign/--second-stage method. This has worked for me in the past, when the standard single-stage method didn't.

Last edited by stultumanto (Today 10:45:17)