Re: Problem with network booting of an IPX

[wolfdieter.schmidt@arcor.de]

Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2005 21:03, wolfdieter.schmidt@arcor.de wrote:
>
> > Sadly this does not work. The reason is that I simple cannot install
> > modutils and initrd-tools as suggested in the upgrade document.
>
>
> By "upgrade document" I guess you mean the Sarge Release Notes for Sparc?
>
>
> > both depend on a lot of other software and the dependency chain ends
> > up in libc6 which causes an error during installation. I tried
> > to force the installation without libc6, but this causes -- who
> > wonders -- unsatisfied symbols. So no luck.
>
>
> I don't understand this. Woody backports for both packages have been 
> provided exactly to avoid those dependencies.
> Are you sure that your sources.list was pointing to Woody and the special 
> location containing the backported modutils and initrd-tools?

Yes, I am sure!

Yesterday I did a fresh installation from the floppy ... until the reboot.
Delayed the boot until today, because of beer time. The floppy are from
somewhen in September/October.

See what I wrote here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/06/msg00062.html
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I could boot woody from the floppy, no problem so far, except
that I cannot update. There is always an error during the update
when replacing libc.
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It seems that the request for the new libc6 comes from security updates,
which are automatically added during the first boot. I did not manually
change /etc/apt/sources.list, all was done during the first boot.


As I remember I see:
Segmentation fault -- error during unpacking.

Cheers
Wolfdieter