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Re: Problems installing Woody from Linux/m68k



On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 08:22, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op ma 24-02-2003, om 22:00 schreef Kars de Jong:
> > > > A binary that works would obviously be more convenient ;-)
> > > 
> > > Sure. If you could try the stable version first (stable has glibc 2.2),
> > > I'll try to compile you the unstable version in a potato chroot. If it
> > > still doesn't work with that, you're out of luck :-P
> > 
> > I however have glibc 2.1 ;-)
> > So, regarding versions: stable -> glibc 2.2, and potato -> glibc 2.1?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > You think it's possible to bootstrap woody with the potato debootstrap?
> 
> No, that won't work. The potato debootstrap searches for a
> base2_2.tar.gz, which does by this time only exist on
> archives.debian.org (or something like that, not sure).
> 
> What you _could_ do is install potato, and upgrade that to woody by
> modifying your sources.list and doing an upgrade that way. Be prepared
> to update a day or so if you're going that way, though.

Ouch :-P
 
> > If that works you don't have to bother compiling, but thanks for the
> > offer :-)
> 
> You're welcome. Since you have an installed system, you might be quicker
> off with a compilation you start yourself; however, my offer still
> stands; I'm preparing the chroot right now.

Trying it with the stable version right now, it seems to get further
(it's downloading the base packages now) so I'll wait and see.
If I can get to chroot stage I'll be okay :-)

Thanks again :-)


Kind regards,

Kars.



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