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- To: "William Ono" <wmono@home.com>
- Subject: Re: Installing Debian base2_2.tgz
- From: "David Fong" <vkelim@netspace.net.au>
- Date: 14 Jun 1999 00:16:01 GMT
- Message-id: <3208.834T80T6162169@netspace.net.au>
Thank you William for your very prompt and detailed reply! The information you provided is very handy, especially for Linux novices such as myself. However, I think you must have missed out some little detail in your notes, because my Debian still doesn't boot successfully. The boot-up process stops after reporting that there are no local file systems to mount (Debian has already reported that it had mounted by root partition). I did copy my /etc/fstab (and modified it) as advised. Debian does not complain, it just stops! Any ideas? Cheerio, David. >I'll type up the notes I took while installing potato on my iMac. I'm >assuming that the potato base tarball is the only thing on your system. >- Make the files in debian-powerpc-9902/msg00100.html, ignoring the [http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-powerpc-9902/msg00100.html] > fact that it says base2_1.tgz there. I had to use cat>file here, > because the distribution I hijacked -- LinuxPPC R4 -- didn't have vi. > (Hopefully you have a half-working system you can mount your to-be root > partition under to do this. Remember that unconfigured.sh needs to > be zapped. >- Reboot, using your partially-working root partition. >- Enter runlevel S (type 'S'). >- remount root read-write. (mount -o rw,remount /) [I used `mount -t ext2 -o remount /dev/sda6 /', of course /dev/sda6 applies to my system only] >- if you have other partitions, remount them rw now too. >- mount /proc >- configure your network. (I had created a /etc/init.d/network on > the previous reboot, which I ran at this point. I don't think you > have done this yet. Just run the appropriate ifconfig and route > commands, or however you configure your network.) >- cat > /etc/apt/sources.list > Add appropriate entries here. You want unstable, because there's > no powerpc in stable (slink). >- dselect > - Configure pre-installed packages > (Now you have a /etc/inittab and all that other stuff.) > - Update packages list. >- fix libc6: apt-get install libc6 >- fix bash. This is a little complicated. You can choose not to upgrade > bash or any packages that bash depends on, or you can do something > similar to this. > - unpack the new bash .deb but do not install it. (dpkg -x) [I used dpkg -x (path to bash.deb including filename) /home] > - apt-get install bash (hey, it broke!) [well, I used dpkg again, and a segmentation fault occurred] > - mv /bin/bash /bin/bash-old > - mv /where/you/did/dpkg-x/bin/bash /bin/bash > - apt-get install bash (this time it should work.) [dpkg worked this time! What is more, during shutdown, Debian didn't complain that `/' was still busy. In fact, shutdown was successful despite the earlier segmentation fault. I can see a light at the end of the tunnel now... :) ] >- Now upgrade other packages, if you wish. >I hope this is useful to you. [Thanks again] >-- >William Ono <wmono@home.com> PGP key: David P.S. Fong - Traralgon, 3844, Australia. Dr.David.Fong@medical.net.au - Surfing and working - Amiga 1200 and Newton http://www.users.bigpond.com/vkelim/ - PGP public key available
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