On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:46:27PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Seems I've been somewhat more lucky on Atari. > > Minor gripe: could we get the installer to add a leading / to the > archive path when the dumb user forgot to put it there? Sure happened to > me, you guessed it. would that solution break other situations? personally i wish we could totally redo that awful dialog, it seems nobody understands it and almost nobody can make it work. > Well, now for the test results: I oould get all the way to starting to > install the base system (that involves loading the ethercard module and > configuring the network on this particular box; I guess Atari owners > without ethernet card are pretty screwed at this point :-). debootstrap > started and downloaded Release and various Packages.gz files. Actually, > on the very first try it failed to get the Release file, dunno why. > Kudos to the busybox maintainers for including ping which helped to > verify that http.us.debian.org was, in fact, alive and reachable. > > So far, so pretty. The whole install ground to a halt with a message > box: > > Failure trying to run: mount -t proc proc /proc > > and VC 4 had > > chroot: cannot execute mount: no such file or directory this is a bug in debootstrap, its failing to extract the required packages which it does before mounting proc. i cannot reproduce this any longer on powerpc. it appears debootstrap does no error checking whatsoever in extract() which would explain why this non-descriptive failure occurs. can you find out what version of busybox these boot-floppies were built with? this problem went away for me as soon as i started building with busybox 0.51-9. > update-modules. The ramdisk had /bin/mount allright though (but copying > that to /target/bin or /target/sbin didn't help). I recall reading a > similar report either here or on debian-powerpc so I'm not telling > anything new here I suppose. proving that extract $required failed to do anything. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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