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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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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 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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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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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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Installing Ubuntu manually from command line (without installer)

Some Linux distributions is lack of installation script, like Gentoo or Arch. Everything can be done by hand (partitioning disk, making filesystems, installing, etc). The questions is: Is it possible to install Ubuntu in that way? I'm making some…
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