Anonymous CVS checkout broken?
On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 05:19:54PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> After that, all techniques are the same. Simply check out the
> sources. For the lastest Potato version, do:
>
> cvs co -r potato boot-floppies
>
> Note that Potato is on a branch now for maintenance only.
While attempting to check out Potato boot-floppies to see if I can help
getting the "newworld" PPC machines to be bootable from dbootstrap,
I fumbled across this problem:
<snipped output - normal CVS checkout until this point...>
cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/utilities
cvs server: Updating boot-floppies/utilities/bf-utf
cvs [server aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 34 bytes
cvs [server aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 79 bytes
It does this at the same point in the checkout every time.
I assume the "[server aborted]" means the problem's not on my end, but
if I'm doing something wrong, let me know. I used the above information
from Adam to do the checkout.
Otherwise, any workarounds for this? I thought I remembered seeing some
discussion of something similar last week or the week before on the
list, but I can't remember and couldn't find it in the archives.
[Of course, I have no idea if I can even help much yet which is why I
was using anonymous pserver access -- I want to get familiar with the code
first, and don't know how long that'll take. There's probably little
chance I'll be able to get this into Potato, but one never knows...
I am somewhat familiar with the boot process on the newworld ppc machines
now that I have a new iMac in my little Debian family, but wouldn't say
I'm an "expert" by any means... but might as well give it a shot. Worst
that can happen is that I'll learn something while hopefully not wasting
too much of anyone's time.]
p.s. It was a lot of fun to show off Debian running on FOUR platforms
(PA-RISC, i386, Sparc, PPC) at the Colorado Linux Info Quest convention
last week... anything to make the Debian installations better on the
"lesser used" platforms, I'm happy to try to do!
--
Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>
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