how to debootstrap Debian 8 Jessie released 2015-04-25 on Ubuntu 14.04

Mario Marietto

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Jun 18, 2023, 4:00:07 AM6/18/23

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I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and I would like to debootstrap debian jessie 8. I've found this tutorial and I tried , but it didn't work :

from here :

https://blog.lazy-evaluation.net/posts/linux/debian-armhf-bootstrap.html

he says to do :

# debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf

but unfortunately :

I: Keyring file not available at /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https mirror https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian

I: Retrieving Release

E: Failed getting release file https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/jessie/Release

how to fix it ? thanks.

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Mario Marietto

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Jun 18, 2023, 4:20:06 AM6/18/23

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Can you elaborate the full command ? thanks.

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 10:12 AM Javier Barroso <javib...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

You need to add http://archive.debian.org/debian yo the debootstrap command

Jessie was archived a long time ago

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Javier Barroso

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Jun 18, 2023, 4:20:06 AM6/18/23

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Hello,

El dom., 18 jun. 2023 9:56, Mario Marietto <mariet...@gmail.com> escribió:

Mario Marietto

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Jun 18, 2023, 4:30:07 AM6/18/23

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ok. these works :

debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian

debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf strech strech-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian

but not this :

root@marietto-Z87-HD3:/home/marietto/Scrivania/Chromebook/linux-distros# debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf buster buster-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian

W: Cannot check Release signature; keyring file not available /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
I: Retrieving Release

E: Failed getting release file http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/Release

root@marietto-Z87-HD3:/home/marietto/Scrivania/Chromebook/linux-distros# debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf buster buster-armhf

I: Keyring file not available at /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https mirror https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian
I: Retrieving Release

E: Failed getting release file https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/buster/Release

thanks.

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Javier Barroso

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Jun 18, 2023, 5:20:05 AM6/18/23

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Hello,

There are old releases archived, and other which are not archived still

You can see the info in Debían web:

https://www.debian.org/releases/

For no archived releases I think no need to add a URL (or maybe then oficial one)

Regards

Greg Wooledge

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Jun 18, 2023, 8:10:05 AM6/18/23

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On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 10:22:56AM +0200, Mario Marietto wrote:
> ok. these works :
>
> debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf
> http://archive.debian.org/debian
>
> debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf strech strech-armhf
> http://archive.debian.org/debian
>
> but not this :
>
> root@marietto-Z87-HD3:/home/marietto/Scrivania/Chromebook/linux-distros#
> debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf buster buster-armhf
> http://archive.debian.org/debian

Buster is not archived yet. It's still receiving some support. So,
you should use the regular mirror set for buster.