Hi all, well, it seems there *are* problems with the boot floppies on ARM710s after all. :-( I tried to start the installation process using the latest 2.2.16 boot floppies from ftp.arm.linux.org.uk, built on 2000-09-06. When I start the installer (from plain RISC OS 3.7, without anything booted or any modules loaded, and no extra args to the kernel), I get the splash screen, and after I press Return, the "is determining the current state..." message appears for a very short time, there is some disc access, and dbootstrap segfaults (whereupon it is immediately restarted by init). I tried switching off the ARM710 cache with "cache off" under RISC OS prior to starting the installation, but it makes no difference. My machine is a RiscPC 700 (i.e. 2nd rev motherboard), upgraded to RO3.7 (the SA that came with it broke, hence the ARM710), 40MB + 1MB VRAM, stock Acorn IDE interface with a Hitachi ATAPI CD ROM and a 3GB Seagate drive. After the failure, I also attempted to continue by installing everything manually. Formatting the partitions and unzipping base2_2.tgz worked OK, but e.g. "apt-get update" or the "gzip" contained in base2_2 also segfaults. Maybe someone would be willing to mail me a version of, say, gzip compiled with debugging support, and other tools to pinpoint the segfault? (What other programs do you actually need?) Many thanks for any help you can offer, All the best, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯
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