Morten Werner Olsen wrote: > Today I tried the daily build netinst iso [1] from 24. Apr 2004 with > the following result: > > - booting with just 'linux' from the silo prompt does still fail with > the "unable to mount root fs" error > - booting succedes with 'linux boot=mount,dall rw' from the silo > prompt Do you mean "devfs=mount,dall"? Apparently the CD's silo.conf is still not right, although it passes devfs=mount to the kernel in a global append line. > - when "Installing the base system" it fails when unable to find the > initrd-tools package (vc 3 says "E: couldn't find package > initrd-tools". rootskel has an incorrect setting for sparc and so it wants to install this package that seems unneeded with the sparc kernels. We've forced initrd-tools onto the CD as a workaround. Please try the netinst image from this directory: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/20040427/ > Is it still a chance we'll get the Sarge netinst iso images working? A slightly higher chance than when no-one was testing them. Thanks for the testing. -- see shy jo
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