Bug#275620: netboot hang sparc32

[Ben Mulvihill <mulvihill@tiscali.it>]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 14:19, Jö Fahlke wrote:
> Am Sa,  9. Okt 2004, 02:42:37 -0700 schrieb Blars Blarson:
> > Try booting with the option debian-installer/framebuffer=false .
> 
> That works with rootskel version 1.04 -- which currently can't be
> build[1] on sparc because of a build failure of glibc (Bug#266598).
> As a workaround to the workaround try the boot option
> TERM_TYPE=virtual .
> 
> [1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=rootskel&ver=1.05&arch=sparc&stamp=1097087457&file=log&as=raw
> 
> Jö.

Thanks to both of you for your advice. I have actually resorted
to the rather more drastic workaround of installing Woody and
upgrading.

Regards,

Ben Mulvihill