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Re: powerpc woody bf installation status



On Sat May 12, 2001 at 01:05:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com> writes:
> 
> > Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:56:34PM -0500 wrote:
> > > That got me all the way to installing base, but that slammed to a halt
> > > quickly since it appears that md5sum is broken (another busybox problem? 
> > > ppc-only? needs more research). So, I commented out the md5 check in 
> > > debootstrap to see how much further I could go. i
> > 
> > I remember this one.  Are you using busybox cvs?  At the moment busybox cvs is
> > working, bb 0.51-1 (the current Debian package) doesn't work for a number of
> > reasons.
> > 
> > > That got me to 
> > > mount -t proc proc /proc which failed miserably. Interestingly, /proc 
> > > was already (successfully?) mounted. I don't see a good way to get 
> > > around that so there it ends.
> > > 
> > > I guess I'll be checking out the busybox cvs next.
> > oh, yes, you should be using cvs.
> 
> Could someone *please* just NMU busybox, urgency high?
> 
> I am wanting to build this boot-floppies *now* and I don't want to
> wait anymore... :)

I'm building a new one now.  Rather then waiting for 0.52 to 
stabalize, I'm backporting the critical bugfixes into 0.51.

 -Erik

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