hi,
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the latest version of debootstrap appears to be very different from the one that comes with knoppix
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root@1[sdb2]# wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool...5-0.2_i386.deb
--11:53:46-- http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool...5-0.2_i386.deb
=> `debootstrap_0.2.45-0.2_i386.deb'
Resolving ftp.us.debian.org... 128.101.240.212, 204.152.191.7, 35.9.37.225
Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org|128.101.240.212|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 72,236 (71K) [application/x-debian-package]

100%[====================================>] 72,236 282.72K/s

11:53:47 (282.29 KB/s) - `debootstrap_0.2.45-0.2_i386.deb' saved [72236/72236]

root@1[sdb2]# ls -l
total 92
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72236 Feb 27 2005 debootstrap_0.2.45-0.2_i386.deb
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov 20 10:37 lost+found
root@1[sdb2]# md5sum *.deb
1e8703ef778369fe9a63f06d2fbb641a debootstrap_0.2.45-0.2_i386.deb
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root@1[sdb2]# which debootstrap
/usr/sbin/debootstrap
root@1[sdb2]# ls -l /usr/sbin/debootstrap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13877 Nov 5 2005 /usr/sbin/debootstrap
root@1[sdb2]# md5sum `which debootstrap`
c1647ae6a94aff9ef316c3651e7a5857 /usr/sbin/debootstrap
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root@1[sdb2]# ls -l /media/sdb2/usr/sbin/debootstrap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5825 Feb 26 2005 /media/sdb2/usr/sbin/debootstrap
root@1[sdb2]# md5sum /media/sdb2/usr/sbin/debootstrap
114daaea89f2a9b84002ff9f09c7a235 /media/sdb2/usr/sbin/debootstrap
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also, the new version does not appear to install a baseline system properly. Lots of problems trying to chroot and install software packages.
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Why is this happening?
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Albretch