How-to chroot into Debian

• bzip2
• tar
• busybox binary to replace missing tools
• debootstrap-0.3.3.1 uclibc powerpc version

1. mkdir /mnt/HD_a2/work && cd /mnt/HD_a2/work
2. ln -s /mnt/HD_a2/bzip2 /mnt/HD_a2/bzcat
3. /mnt/HD_a2/bzcat debootstrap-0.3.3.1_uclibc_powerpc.tar.bz2 | /mnt/HD_a2/tar -xvf -
4. export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=`pwd`/usr/lib/debootstrap
5. Extract busybox-1.00.tgz and add extracted bin and sbin directory to a PATH. For example export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/HD_a2/bin:/mnt/HD_a2/sbin
6. ./usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch powerpc sid /mnt/HD_a2/debian http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian

Update: this command causes a segmentation fault currently

1. cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/HD_a2/debian/etc/resolv.conf
2. mount -t proc proc /mnt/HD_a2/debian/proc
3. cd /
4. chroot /mnt/HD_a2/debian
5. apt-get update
6. apt-get install locales
7. dpkg-reconfigure locales
8. passwd root
9. apt-get install dropbear
10. apt-get install hotplug

/dev/sda3               /               ext3            noatime                 0 0
/dev/sda1               none            swap            sw                      0 0
none                    /proc           proc            defaults                0 0
none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           defaults                0 0

mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth0 eth0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.2
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1

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