Bug#249164: installation report on DECstation (mipsel)

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de> [2004-05-15 16:17]:
> Keyboard selection:     [E] Kbd-Chooser only presents PC keymaps by default.
>                             Pressing ESC brings one back to the main menu.
>                             On reselection of "choose keyboard" I get a menu
>                             asking to choose between DEC, USB and AT
>                             keyboards. Selecting "DEC" gives an error. The
>                             log says: choose_keymap: keymap = US English
>                                       ERROR: cannot open file US English
>                             I have not yet had time to look into this, but the
>                             DEC US keymap is called "LK201-US", so there
>                             might be a wrong string passed.    

Let's copy Alastair to this.

> Install base system:    [O] checking the package sizes takes _very_ long 
>                             on a slow system (about 4 to 5 seconds per
>                             package)

I don't think there's anything that can be done about this.

> Install boot loader:    [E] tries to install CoLo, the Cobalt Loader (wrong
>                             subarchitecture)  

This is fixed in unstable now.

> Rebooting into the second stage does not work, though. Instead of loading
> the delo 2nd stage loader, the systems jumps back into the firmware prompt.
> I have bootet over the network to get the system up again.

Can you try that again?

> In configuring console-data (in German), Umlauts are displayed wrongly,
> like encoded in UTF-8 but printed on a terminal in iso-latin-1.

I don't know.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com