Re: Debian Sparc installations
>
> jed requires jed-common; the Packages listing states that this is in
> binary-sparc, but it's in binary-all. The same applies to tetex-base, and
> several others.
Hmm..
They do indeed live in binary-all, but there should be symlinks in
binary-sparc. Sounds like your mirror was broken - AFAIK, it's OK for me.
>
> X fails with complaints about the lack of /dev/kbd. Is this something which
> gets made with a proper dselect installation? I would run makedev, but I've
> noticed that the Other Distribution assigns /dev/kbd the major number 11,
> minor 0, which is scd0 with Debian, and I'd rather leave it alone until I
> know what the Right Thing To Do is. And there's probably some marvelous
> Debian package which sets up everything correctly, anyway :-)
This does seem to be an open issue. I had to make /dev/mouse myself, but
not /dev/kbd.
However, you don't have to supply numbers as parameters to makedev - try
./MAKEDEV kbd while root is in /dev
(or something like that)
> All in all, I'm quite impressed and delighted that so much works so smoothly.
> And I suppose I should volunteer to help in some way. Any suggestions?
Stay subscribe to this list, and volunteer when something comes up :)
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