Re: inital install & fdisk
Stephen Zander wrote:
>
> Stephen Zander <srz@mckesson.com> writes:
> > I'm now further into this install (being done on a part-time basis)
> > and am curious about something:
> >
> > Why do swapsetup, dinstall & co run as nobody?
>
> Don't ya love talking to yourself....
>
> After actually turning my brain on for half a minute I worked out
> what I'd missed on this. However, I sad to say that the Debian
> sparc installation process is fundamentally broken. (Stephen goes off
> into hyperbole....)
>
> Basic problem is the lack of support for msdos f/s in the 2.0.29
> kernel as it appears in .../disks-sparc. This support is necessary
> as the dinstall process wants to fake mounting [rd]*1440.bin
> as floppy devices though a f/s loop-back. What exactly do the resue
> & driver disks contain & can I fake them some other way?
Even if the msdos fs is compiled into the kernel, the installation will fail
because resc1440.bin have to be mounted through the loop service and this one
fails if the image to mount is on nfs partition.
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