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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by Jenda_ on Saturday January 02, 2021 @03:35AM (#25611319)
FYI you don't need to run the second stage of debootstrap/dpkg on the device. You can install qemu-user-static, "cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static path/to/sd/card/mount/usr/bin/" and then you can chroot there from your x86 machine. It works by registering a handler in /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc and then it runs the binaries with qemu.
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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by jamesmd on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:41AM (#25611534)
I tried that, it refused to execute armel binaries however arm64 worked fine.

I’m not sure if it’s a bug or something I was doing wrong but I gave up and just finished the install on the device.

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Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC by andrewshadura on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:32AM (#25611495)
There's also a tool called debos which can automate that.
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