On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 12:47:31AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:31:01AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > debootstrap is still saying: 'Failure trying to run: dpkg > > --force-auto-select --force-overwrite --force' > > it would be nice if we could get more data as to whats really causing > this. ill try and look at this tonite. powerpc-utils wants to update a conffile. The prompt fails because stdin is /dev/null. You then get repeat 20 failures of dpkg because powerpc-utils never configures. This should be fixed in debootstrap-0.1.10. I usually hand-patch the woody script (/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody if memory serves) to include --force-confold before I install base (while I wait for debootstrap-0.1.10 to show up ;-). > > the quik booting didn't work on this Wallstreet PowerMac, but that's > > status quo, not a blocker per se. No, it's not ofpath failing, that > > returns fine (ofpath /dev/hda => /pci/mac-io/ata0/ata-disk@0:). I > > can't tell if that's actually used to set boot-device because the > > system is going into serial console and I don't have one at the > > moment. You should be able to run nvsetenv at VT2? (or nvsetenv boot-device). > yeah the quik stuff is pretty much going to fail unless you have a > 7200, 7300, or 7600. What else is needed? I can't fully test it, but I don't mind adding it. Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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