Re: m68k netinst cd's
Ignore that post -- it occurred to me that I probably have the daily
initrd instead of the one from the CD... I will try again.
Finn
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Finn Thain wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
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> >
> > Both images use lenny d-i. The etch-m68k one installs etch-m68k. The
> > sid one might install sid. I haven't added the appropriate locales yet
> > for sid, so who knows.
>
> I tried the etch installer on my quadra 630 today (debian mirror at
> ftp.debian-ports.org).
>
> It went well up to the "configure the package manager" step. A couple of
> times it hung until I killed the stuck process. I looked into it and found
> that apt-setup-verify passes the --dlwaypoint option which causes a
> debconf-apt-progress child in the etch chroot to stall. I edited out
> "--dlwaypoint 100" and re-ran the step. I think it tried to upgrade
> source.list to sid. It complained about a missing public key with which to
> verify the sid Release file.
>
> After that, the "select and install software" step fails too, because
> aptitude in the etch chroot doesn't seem to understand "safe-upgrade". So
> I basically ended up doing "finish installation" at this point.
>
> I also found that, on the initrd, busybox seems to have a bug. If you
> switch to a shell prompt and run ip/wget/tar with incorrect options or no
> options they all segfault. But they work fine when you pass correct
> arguments.
>
> In the end, I have a bootable etch system, so the installer is 99%
> working.
>
> Only apt-get update says 404 not found for
> http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-m68k/{Packages.gz,Sources.gz}
> and craps out... not sure why.
>
> Finn
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