On debian, how to run debootstrap offline, without internet access?

Xeratul · 12-24-2023, 09:49 AM

Hello,

During TRIP, on my Raspberry PI, Arm notebooks, I need to want to run debootstrap for the same machine.

I am without internet access. Likely is there a method to do so?

armbian, debian raspios...

Thank you and

Kind regards

jmgibson1981 · 12-25-2023, 08:39 PM

Unless you have a local repository mirror to pull from no it can't be done. Debootstrap works by using a remote repository. If you have a local repo you would call debootstrap as such.

Code:

debootstrap bookworm /mnt http://ip-to-repo/debian

or whatever. I'm assuming it may be able to work off a dvd installer disk mounted by just changing source part but never had a reason to try it.

Xeratul · 12-30-2023, 11:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmgibson1981

Unless you have a local repository mirror to pull from no it can't be done. Debootstrap works by using a remote repository. If you have a local repo you would call debootstrap as such.

Code:

debootstrap bookworm /mnt http://ip-to-repo/debian

or whatever. I'm assuming it may be able to work off a dvd installer disk mounted by just changing source part but never had a reason to try it.

With your cache, i.e. /var/cache/apt/archive/, you can build a server for debootstrap, i.e. package list?

Xeratul · 01-02-2024, 04:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmgibson1981

Unless you have a local repository mirror to pull from no it can't be done. Debootstrap works by using a remote repository. If you have a local repo you would call debootstrap as such.

Code:

debootstrap bookworm /mnt http://ip-to-repo/debian

or whatever. I'm assuming it may be able to work off a dvd installer disk mounted by just changing source part but never had a reason to try it.

This is the classic debbotstrap comnand

However how do you setup your server?

jmgibson1981 · 01-02-2024, 08:59 AM

Easiest way would be to use apt mirror on a local server. Be aware that the entire repo is > 100GB or so. You can choose which sub repositories to keep or not. You need main. You can live without contrib and nonfree. nonfree firmware is a necessity imo but you can probably ignore it as well.