Re: Tried different images w/o success. Where do I get working ones?

[Ruediger Scholz <rscholz@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>]

Hello,

I too ran into these problems while installing a 715/100 recently.
burnit@gmx.net schrieb:

> Hello all,
>
> today i downloaded several iso-images of the d-i for hppa:
>
> 1. netboot RC-2
> 2. netboot 2005-02-22
> 3. business 2005-02-22
>
> Unfortuneatly I wasn't able to install debian with any of them.
>
> Ad 1.) As described in bug #274536, the cp command got defunctional while
> copying "console-data" (or -common, I can't remember). This seems similiar
> to me with the problems I encountered in september 2004 (it was just a
> different package then).
>  
Without reading the buglist I think the problem with my 715/100 is the 
tag command queue. I used the same images and while copying the packages 
to the harddisc the queue runs full and the system crashs without any 
messages.

> Ad 2.) The system hangs while reading the ramdisk. I can read only parts of
> the output, as it gets rewritten in one row very fast. But at the beginning
> it says sth. with "-28 != 32xxx" in it (I can't remember the values of xxx).
> (Similiar to what Joey Hess said in his mail "hppa 2.6 badness", at least in
> my eyes.) BTW: How can I pass boot arguments to the kernel? I tried
>
> BOOT_PROMPT> Boot scsi.1.0 ramdisk_size=20000
>
> but the kernel didn't seem to be impressed by this.
>
> Ad 3.) The same as 2.)
>
> So could someone please tell me, where I can find functional images? It
> would be nice if I could avoid burning many useless ones, as my CD-ROM
> doesn't cope with rewriteable media.
>  
For me, the only image which enables me to install my 715/100 was 3.0r4. 
It worked like a charm and it's also faster then the newer images.

> I have several old HP-machines I would like to install linux on and I'm
> willing to do some testing. But at first I would finish one installation on
> one machine (720/60).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Holger
>
>  
Greetings,
   Ruediger