Bug#220640: more info on d-i on sparc

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:59:53PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
-- snip --
> Machine: Sun Ultra 5
> Processor: UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz
-- snip --
> Comments/Problems:

Some items that I/we previous didn't report

> 
> The NEWT debconf frontend had a blue cursor on blue background.
> Due to that, it was impossible to complete the installation; we could
> not see the cursor. We could see which buttons were active, though.

The system has two video output connectors.
 - onboard, where we typed 'boot net PARAMETER=value'
 - videocard, where the d-i appears

> 
> When we opened a shell on tty2, the keyboard appeared to have
> strange behaviour: only after every 4 keystrokes, you did get feedback.
> e.g. type one, two, three, nothing appears, type four and you see
> 1234
> Error in the keyboard buffer? Wrong driver?

The keyboard had other strange bahaviour.
There where some keys that had the same effect a [enter]

> 
> The installation did successfully perform a dhcp request. However, it
> was unable to make a connection to any Debian mirror, so we could
> not continue. There were too little utilities present to test more;
> no ping, only ifconfig.




The regular 
  make TYPE=netboot
produced an image with nasty GLIBC .ufoobar symbol error.

As workaround we did:
  make tree TYPE=netboot
then copied the libc.so from the compiler system into to tmp/tree/netboot/lib
  make initrd TYPE=netboot



Geert Stappers