Re: 2020-04-19 debian-10.0-sparc64 NETINST working fine sort of but libc6-dev ???
On 2020-04-21 12:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 4/21/20 5:40 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
root@phobos:~# cp -p /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.orig
root@phobos:~#
root@phobos:~# vi /etc/apt/sources.list
root@phobos:~#
root@phobos:~#
root@phobos:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.0 _Sid_ - Unofficial sparc64 NETINST 20200419-15:32]/ sid main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports/ sid main non-free contrib
Debian Ports has neither "contrib" nor "non-free".
Ah well, that certainly explains that. Seems deb-src does not exist
either.
root@phobos:~# apt-get install build-essential xauth libx11-dev autoconf bison gdb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential : Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev
Depends: g++ (>= 4:9.2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@phobos:~#
No, that works (see below). It's most likely your band-aid installation that
causes these problems.
Well I did open the cover of the machine to see that there was an IDE
interface in there but the cable needed seemed to be an odd width. The
front of the machine has a slot for a CDROM as well as a 4mm DAT tape
drive and I have neither of those. Would be great to try to boot from
tape again one day. Hardly practical :) The only way that I could figure
to boot the machine was to dd the netinst into a scsi disks cylinder 0
and then boot that from the firmware. When the installer asked where the
installation media was I simply entered manually /dev/sdb and everything
ran fine.
In any case the machine seems to be running fine and I am happy that I
did not need to resort to TFTP/BOOTp nonsense to get the installer
working. It all just worked out of the box and with an actual CRT type
old terminal attached to the ttya port there was no problem at all.
That installer seems to be just great.
Thank you so much.
--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional
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