debootstrap won't work

[ZhymabekRoman]

Hello. I use proot-distro, Ubuntu 20. And debootstrap won't work :

$ debootstrap focal /home
mknod: /home/test-dev-null: Function not implemented
E: Cannot install into target '/home' mounted with noexec or nodev

What data do I need to provide so that you can solve the problem ?

[ghost]

@ZhymabekRoman It seems Debootstrap attempts to create device nodes. normally creating device nodes requires root access nor not supported in android (even inside the /data directory). and i think android mounts /data directory as nodev mount, so that's most likely that mknod command won't work. debootstrap needs to be fixed here (further reading)

Try using linux deploy then use Debootstrap there (well I'm not sure it that works also).

And it seems proot-distro cannot be run as root user. so you can't Debootstrap inside proot

[michalbednarski]

Debootstrap here tried to use mknod to create device nodes (which is not allowed for unprivileged processes nor usable within /data. There probably won't be emulation of that in proot, use Termux's patched debootstrap (available from Termux apt) instead of installing debootstrap inside proot-distro.

(If you want you might use debootstrap to create rootfs in home of proot-distro ($PREFIX/var/lib/proot-distro/installed-rootfs/ubuntu/home), although I'm not sure if that would be usable)

[ZhymabekRoman]

Ohhh, OK, thanks !