Bug#283294: rc2 on sparc64: workaround

[Herbert.Kaminski@t-online.de (Herbert Kaminski)]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:23:32 +0100, Herbert Kaminski wrote:

>Second stage fails with: 
>  "error: Unable to switch charset mapping to ISO-8859-15 with terminal 'pseudo'
>   warning: disabling unsupported locale 'de_DE@euro'.
>   Configuring the base system..."
>and restarting second stage in an endless loop. Same happens with english install
>except other chareset and locale.

The bad news: daily build budinesscard ISO as of 02-DEC-2004 still is broken
The good new: I found a workaround for this bug:
1. boot with 'linux debconf/priority=medium' (or low);
2. skip 'Choose language', 'Choose Country...' and 'Select a keyboard.." from 
   the menu, proceed with 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' instead, then continue the
   suggested sequence of steps.
Later in stage 2, some packages complain about missing locales, but the 
installation completes and creates a basically usable system.

cheers
  Herbert