dont work for 512 RAM Rpi Model B

[cirrusUK]

sadly when i reach the install i get
Unknown architecture: armv6h
the pi runs archlinux-arm, i installed debootstrap-git from aur.
any tips appreciated.

Unknown architecture: armv6h
Something went wrong with the installation, run this to clean up your system:
rm -rf /var/lib/machines/iandeb
rm /etc/systemd/nspawn/iandeb.nspawn
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/cirrus/build/nspawn2go.py", line 300, in
raise e
File "/home/cirrus/build/nspawn2go.py", line 214, in
subprocess.run(
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 528, in run
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args,
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'debootstrap --variant minbase --include=dbus,systemd,sudo,tigervnc-standalone-server,dbus-x11,icewm,xterm --cache-dir /root/.cache/b9_provision_nspawn_deb stable iandeb http://deb.debian.org/debian/' returned non-zero exit status 1.

[boronine]

My guess is that Arch is reporting the system architecture in a way that debootstrap doesn't understand. What is your exact Raspberry Pi model? I'll try emulating it in QEMU.

[cirrusUK]

Thanks for the prompt response, this is my olde pi model, i appreciate your help.

[boronine]

From the link

Model: Raspberry Pi Model B 512MB RAM
Chip: Broadcom BCM2835
Processor: ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM11

[boronine]

Installing Arch on ARM QEMU is too time consuming, I'm not willing to go through with it. For reference, this seems to be the instructions: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv6/raspberry-pi

I believe in Debian-land this architecture is called armel. So perhaps this issue can be worked around by passing the architecture to debootstrap explicitly via the --arch parameter.

Can you try running this version of the script? This is just a testing branch. If it works, I will add a parameter to the script to override the architecture.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boronine/nspawn2go/wip-armel/nspawn2go.py

[boronine]

@cirrusUK ^

[cirrusUK]

thanks bro, got few steps forward, only thing falling over now is
E: cache directory should be specified with an absolute path

i will troubleshoot some more when i get back, gtg out an errand, thx again

[boronine]

Thanks for testing!

The error E: cache directory should be specified with an absolute path is probably because your XDG_CACHE_HOME is set to a non-absolute path. I removed this variable in the master version so you can try again.

I also added support for VMARCH environment variable. You should be able to use the master version of the script like so:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boronine/nspawn2go/master/nspawn2go.py
sudo su
VMARCH=armel python3 nspawn2go.py

[cirrusUK]

Here is the Output from the modified .py
regards and again thx for taking the time.

[boronine]

Are you sure you ran the latest code and included the VMARCH=armel environment variable? Based on your output it looks like either the script is not up-to-date or it's not picking up VMARCH.

Could you try again? Note also that if you don't delete the old script before downloading the new one, wget will append a suffix to the new one.