Woody: installation on a Javastation

["Lars Ehrhardt" <le-mailinglist@h42.de>]

Hello,

we are trying to install woody on a javastation (krups) via nfs 
but have run into several problems which we could not fix.

We installed the root.tar-archive from 
ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/3.0.16-2001-10-27/
on a solaris nfs share with the options rw and no_root_squash.

The kernel boots, the system starts just fine with the 
dbootstrap program, we can load a keymap, but it is not possible
to mount a "previously-initialized partition".
When we enter the path 194.xx.xx.xxx:/export/linux-fs into
the dialog box, we get the error message: 
mount failed: too many levels of symbolic links.

I tried to mount the partition on the second console
with:
> mount -t nfs 194.xx.xx.xxx:/export/linux-fs /target
but there I get the error message: 
mount failed: invalid argument.

I can ping the other machine, so the network should work.

Maybe it is a problem with busybox 0.60pre? The changelog
for busybox 0.60.1 states:
* Manuel Novoa III
-- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some
   problems with mount and other applets).


We tried the kernel 2.3.99pre2 (from the javastation how-to).

The kernel log has two entries:
init[1]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 155
sh[6]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 155

However, I can use a shell and the dbootstrap program
seems to work right.

So far I could not compile a newer kernel version.
The pre-compiled 2.4.2 version that is also mentioned 
in the javastation-howto messed up the solaris dhcp 
server and had problems communicating with the nfs 
server.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

bye lars.