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The Art of Installing Debian the Arch-way

Around 2005, I published in my personal blog in Wordpress a small tutorial on how to install Debian the Nerd-way. That post is long gone now, and it was more like a small reference guide for myself than anything else. Recently I tried some of those steps again just for fun to see they still work and they do!

As you move on in this tutorial, you will notice it resembles a lot the Arch Linux installation method (hence the title). That's not a surprise since all of this existed even before Arch was popularized.

This work grabs some steps from the Instaling Debian GNU/Linux from a Unix/Linux System, in the Random Bits appendix from the Debian documentation. I decided to create one of my own because some of those steps could be either abbreviated or more detailed.

DISCLAIMER: as you already suspect, these steps will potentially break your system! Read every step carefully and check what applie

Installing Debian

prepare storage

prepare

create a memory storage for secure files

mkdir -p /prepare

On another Debian (x86 or arm64, doesn't matter much).

apt install distrobuilder qemu-system-common

Create a configuration file (debian.yml for example) for your LXC image :

image:
  description: |-
    Nearly stock Debian Bookworm image

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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abx

ABX test of audio files

abx original.wav lossy.wav

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# OpenWrt Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_MODULES=y
	CONFIG_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG=y
	CONFIG_HOST_OS_LINUX=y
	# CONFIG_HOST_OS_MACOS is not set
	# CONFIG_TARGET_airoha is not set
	# CONFIG_TARGET_d1 is not set

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# Linux/arm64 6.1.99 Kernel Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (ctng-1.25.0-119g-FA) 11.3.0"
	CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
	CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=110300
	CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION=0
	CONFIG_AS_IS_GNU=y
	CONFIG_AS_VERSION=23800

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# U-Boot 2017.09 Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_CREATE_ARCH_SYMLINK=y
	# CONFIG_ARC is not set
	CONFIG_ARM=y
	# CONFIG_M68K is not set
	# CONFIG_MICROBLAZE is not set
	# CONFIG_MIPS is not set

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# OpenWrt Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_MODULES=y
	CONFIG_HAVE_DOT_CONFIG=y
	CONFIG_HOST_OS_LINUX=y
	# CONFIG_HOST_OS_MACOS is not set
	# CONFIG_TARGET_airoha is not set
	# CONFIG_TARGET_sunxi is not set

	#
	# Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
	# Linux/arm64 6.1.57 Kernel Configuration
	#
	CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (ctng-1.25.0-119g-FA) 11.3.0"
	CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
	CONFIG_GCC_VERSION=110300
	CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION=0
	CONFIG_AS_IS_GNU=y
	CONFIG_AS_VERSION=23800