Re: Regarding: Bug#401271: [powerpc,prep] Motorola Powerstack II installation report.

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:45:30PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 02-12-2006 om 11:42 schreef Frans Pop:
> > On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:47, Sven Luther wrote:
> > 
> > > Now, about the workaround, currently you need to :
> > >
> > >   1) as soon as the base system is installed, when you are in the
> > > tasksel dialog, go to console 2, chroot /target, install lftp or some
> > > other tool and get the unstable mkvmlinuz and linux-image-2.6.18-3-prep
> > > kernels.
> > 
> > Why install lftp? Just use wget...
> 
> | $ apt-cache show bash | head -n 3
> | Package: bash
> | Essential: yes
> | Priority: required
> | $ apt-cache show wget | head -n 3
> | Package: wget
> | Priority: important
> | Section: web
> | $
> 
> I can imagion that "install lftp or some other tool" is indeed needed.
> 
> 
> I admit that I should have check "who is right".
> 
> The reason for this message is to avoid
> another "stop bashing me" message.
> 
> The thing I would like to see are messages with technical content,
> E-mail threads that tell why things works (or wouldn't work)

Well, no, i think Frans question about why not wget was perfectly valid. I
guess i didn't think of wget, or rather i was too lazy to copy such a long
path by hand, and just installed lftp to get the stuff, with its nice mget
linux-image*prep* syntax.

Friendly,

Sven Luther