Description of problem: febootstrap under Fedora 17 on Raspberry Pi ARM will not function at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): febootstrap-3.18-1.fc17.armv5tel How reproducible: Entering febootstrap with or without parameters / switches always results in failure. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install febootstrap 2. febootstrap Actual results: Error text returned in the shell as follows: Illegal instruction (core dumped) Expected results: Perform the fedora equivalent of the debootstrap command. Additional info: None.
This could be a code-gen bug. I only have armv7 available, and as far as I can remember, febootstrap worked OK. Do you know what the illegal instruction is? Do any OCaml programs work at all on armv5, eg what does this say? ocamlopt.opt -help echo 'print_endline "hello world"' > hello.ml ocamlopt.opt hello.ml ./a.out
Hello Richard, Thanks for responding so quickly. The Raspberry Pi uses an SDcard as its primary storage device. Unfortunately the card I have is extremely small and I do not have enough room to install OCaml and dependencies on it. I'm attempting to use febootstrap so that I can relocate the system and user files on an external USB hard disk, whilst retaining only the boot partition on the SDcard. So far as the illegal instruction goes, I'm afraid I haven't a clue what it could be. The febootstrap command literally returns the text as described: [root@fedora-arm /]# febootstrap Illegal instruction (core dumped) [root@fedora-arm /]# I would be grateful if you would be able to advise on a way forward please. I'm sorry I've not been much help responding to your questions. Kind regards, Ron.
It's likely that you shouldn't be using febootstrap anyway. Use: sudo yum --installroot=/other/path install @Base or something similar.
The yum --installroot was unsuccessful. But in any case, it still leaves the base febootstrap issue open. Thanks for your help Kind regards.
'febootstrap' named to 'supermin' in Fedora 19.
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