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Bug#243924: Status-report (Sparcstation LX) - netinst iso (24. Apr 2004)



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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