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[Debian] Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

What I'm trying to do is use Debian in a chroot from an ext2 partition. Now I know how to install Debian to a partition, and I know how to install Easy-Debian, but not install Easy-Debian to a ext2 partition [not an img file].

You may ask why?

Well, chrooting Debian from an actual partition is waaaaaay faster than from an img file, and Qole's img files are ~1GB -- I can have a partition as large as I want.

You may also ask, why not just install regular Debian to a partition, like Johnx's one for example, and chroot into it?

I tried this, and it just didn't work well. For one, APT was broken, and it just seems that except for being slow, Qole's Easy-Debian just 'works'.

So what I did was freshly format my ext2 partition, and edited /sbin/debian and removed all the mount lines. Like:

Code:

#Make the tablet's devices available to Debian

  echo .

  mount -o bind /dev "$CHROOT/dev"

  mount -o bind /proc "$CHROOT/proc"



  #Gentoo wiki says this will make X work

  echo ..

  mount -t devpts none "$CHROOT/dev/pts"

  mount -o bind /tmp "$CHROOT/tmp"



  #Various external devices

  echo ...

  #FIXME: Should get these from /proc/mounts...

  mount -o bind /media/mmc1 "$CHROOT/media/mmc1"

  mount -o bind /media/mmc2 "$CHROOT/media/mmc2"

  mount -o bind /media/usb "$CHROOT/media/usb"



  #Mount the user's home dir

  echo ....

  mount -o bind /home/user "$CHROOT/home/user"

I got ride of all that.

I then ran Debian-Chroot from the application launcher, and let it mount the debian-img.ext2 image to /debian/

I then copied everything from /debian/ to my ect2 partition.

I then edited the /home/user/.chroot file to look like this:

Code:

# Sample config for chroot 



# Device or image containing Debian filesystem.

# Default: first in /media/mmc[12]/debian*.img*

IMGFILE=/dev/mmcblk1p2



# Filesystem used; must always be set when using a partition.

# Default: from extension of IMGFILE, or ext2.

IMGFS=ext2



# Mount point for Debian.

# Default: /debian

CHROOT=/debian



# New /tmp dir size for printing / PDF creation

# Default: 2M

TMPSIZE=2M



# Debian user to drop privileges

# Default: user

DEBUSER=user

I basically just pointed it to my ext2 partition (/dev/mmcblk1p2).

I then rebooted, and changed /sbin/debian back to what it was originally, and tried my chroot out.

It seemingly mounts my ext2 partition to /debian/, but NOTHING WORKS! Gah! :(

What did I do wrong? Is my whole logic wrong? Help...

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

If you run just the "Debian Chroot" icon you should get a terminal that shows a bunch of output..

Copy that output and show us here if you can..

Or if it disapears too fast... open a terminal; get to root; and just run "debian" ... see where the errors are.

U didn't need to modify the debian script at all.. if all you wanted to do was mount the img file and copy the data... as root you could have mount myext2.img /debian and copied .. that way not messing with the original scripts... But anyway.. the process you outlined should have been fine.

If you DO get into a chroot using just "debian"... then try launching something from the maemo user account in a terminal like: debbie abiword

Check the output from that command and see where it's failing.

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

Running 'debian' as root gives:

Code:

chroot set up already!

Everything set up, running chroot...

chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory

Then running 'debbie abiword':

Code:

Starting Debian abiword

But nothing happens, it just goes back to the root prompt.

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

Code:

chroot: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory

That's not good... the chroot is not working because it is saying it either can't find; or I'd venture can't execute the /bin/sh.

I think when you copied it it didn't copy over permissions... did you use cp -pr or just cp when you ran the copy from the image to the new ext2??

I think everything in your new debian is probably owner:group root:root and rw-r-r or something similar..

ETA: if this is the case.. it will be easier to start over and run the cp with -pr as root instead of fixing these permissions by hand.

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

I used Emelfm2 as root to copy the files. For example, the files in /debian/bin are owner:root group:root and permissions:-rwxr-xr-x, but some files' permissions are different.

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

specifically what are /debian/bin/sh?

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

/debian/bin/sh is owner:root group:root and permissions:lrwxrwxrwx.

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

Sorry... what is the permissions on /debian/bin/bash .. sh is a link.

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

/debian/bin/bash is owner:root group:root and permissions:-rwxr-xr-x.

Re: Need Help using Easy-Debian from an EXT2 Partition.

If you manually run:

chroot /debian

Do you get the same error?