From: Petter Reinholdtsen
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:59:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New post.
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New post.
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diff --git a/blog/data/2013-10-27-vmdebootstrap-rpi.txt b/blog/data/2013-10-27-vmdebootstrap-rpi.txt
index 150502d8e0..cd786e32c2 100644
--- a/blog/data/2013-10-27-vmdebootstrap-rpi.txt
+++ b/blog/data/2013-10-27-vmdebootstrap-rpi.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
Title: Teaching vmdebootstrap to create Raspberry Pi SD card images
-Tags: english, freedombox, mesh network
+Tags: english, debian, freedombox, mesh network
Date: 2013-10-27 17:00
The
@@ -94,7 +94,10 @@ sudo ./vmdebootstrap \
The list of packages being installed are the ones needed by
rpi-update to make the image bootable on the Raspberry Pi, with the
exception of netbase, which is needed by debootstrap to find
-/etc/hosts with the minbase variant.
+/etc/hosts with the minbase variant. I really wish there was a way to
+set up an Raspberry Pi using only packages in the Debian archive, but
+that is not possible as far as I know, because it boots from the GPU
+using a non-free binary blob.
The build host need debootstrap, kpartx and qemu-user-static and
probably a few others installed. I have not checked the complete