Re: sparc IPC
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 07:16:45PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
>
> Brian> Hello, I have an old sparc IPC workstation, and am trying
> Brian> to install Debian testing on it, using boot disks created
> Brian> on 2001-10-27.
>
> On other comment: it says "Extracting .../whiptail..." for a long
> time.
>
> The first time this happened, I thought it had crashed. The fact I
> didn't have tty2 available to check didn't help :-(. The next time I
> found it was unpacking all the packages again with dpkg (very slow
> process on this computer...).
>
> Of course, the debug output is on ALT+F4, but I was confused when
> ALT+F1 said unpacking whiptail, but ALT+F4 said unpacking libc6...
>
> I find the current behaviour confusing, and think the message should
> change after it has unpacked whiptail.
This problems have allegedly been fixed.
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