Problems with d-i RC2 on BW G3 R2
Hi,
I tried to test the debian installer RC2 on my computers at home. It
went perfectly fine on my G3 iBook Rev2, but on my desktop computer, a
good old powerMac G3 B&W Rev2 (with a G4 500MHz upgrade from Sonnet and
a Radeon 7000 PCI Mac edition), it stopped after a promising start.
In fact, it stopped at the end of the basic packages installation, at
the kernel installation step. Here is the relevant part of the install.log:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc module-init-tools
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/13.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 38.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package module-init-tools.
(Reading database ... 7564 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking module-init-tools (from
.../module-init-tools_3.1-pre6-1_powerpc.deb)
...
Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc.
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc (from
.../kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc_2.6.8-6_powerpc.deb) ...
dpkg-deb (subprocess): error in buffer_read(stream): failed to write to
pipe in
copy: Input/output error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste returned error exit status 2
dpkg: error processing
/cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8/kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc_2.6.8-6_powerpc.deb
(--unpack):
short read in buffer_copy (backend dpkg-deb during
`./lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diva_mnt.ko')
Errors were encountered while processing:
/cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8/kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc_2.6.8-6_powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ln: /target/usr/bin/awk: File exists
umount: /target/dev/pts: Invalid argument
umount: /target/dev/shm: Invalid argument
umount: /target/proc/bus/usb: Invalid argument
Since I didn't know where to send this kind of messages, I though it was
the first place to try and look for a solution.
If it can help, I'd better bring to attention that I use an up to date
Sarge distribution on this computer, and it works fine. Nonetheless, I
still use a 2.4.x kernel on it. I tried once the 2.6.8.1 from Debian,
but I had no luck to make it work: at boot stage, the module loading
wouldn't work for the IDE interface: CMD Technology Inc PCI0646 (rev 7).
It is a module in the initrd image and is mandatory to access the IDE
disk. But modules fails to load so the kernel fails to mount the root
partition and panics (May be I missed something in my installation of
the 2.6.8.1 kernel, though).
mata ne
--
luigi
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