Bug#274536: Debian Installer Pre RC2 on PARISC

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Peter Van Loock wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> 
> Debian-installer-version: Pre-RC2
> uname -a: N/A
> Date: Sat Oct  2 13:09:46 CEST 2004
> Method: Booted from CD
> 
> Machine: Hewlett Packard 9000-712/60
> Processor: PA-Risc 1.1d - PA7100 LC (PCX-L)
> Memory: 64 MB
> Root Device: SCSI, /dev/sda
> Root Size/partition table: N/A
> Output of lspci: N/A

[..]

> When installing the base system, the installation seemed to stall on 
> 'Retrieving coreutils'. I waited for more than half an hour, but the 
> installer did not continue. On /dev/tty2, I could see that a 'cp'-command was 
> running.
> When I tried to manually copy the file (coreutils) the shell also blocked.
> The CD checked out OK. After I installed Debian using netboot, I tried to copy 
> this file from the same CD with the same CD-reader and this worked without a 
> problem.

[Cleaning up historical bug reports]

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz