RE: V210 booted from iso and installed but could not find mirror?

[Brian2 <brian@siberianboxes.com>]

Thanks so much Adrian!
I seem to be chasing my tail a bit though as I am getting that wget is not installed so can't install the keyring to install stuff...

root@daffy:/etc/apt# wget
-bash: wget: command not found
root@daffy:/etc/apt# apt-get install wget
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package wget is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'wget' has no installation candidate

Regards
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> 
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2023 9:05 AM
To: Brian2 <brian@siberianboxes.com>
Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: V210 booted from iso and installed but could not find mirror?

Hi Brian!

On Fri, 2023-03-24 at 03:07 +0000, Brian2 wrote:
> Booting from the iso in the DVD allowed me to install without an issue. 

Great.

> However, I was unable to find a mirror to download any packages from. 
> I'm only after basic stuff like tcsh, alpine, openssh-server, etc.
> 
> What are my next steps now to make this system useful?

Make sure you have these lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

# binary default
deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unstable main deb http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd/ unstable main deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main

# contrib and non-free arch:all packages (i.e. firmware) deb [arch=all] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable contrib non-free

# source
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd/ buildd-unstable main

You can fetch the file from here:

> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sources.list

You may have to install the Debian Ports Archive Keyring:

# wget http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2023.02.01_all.deb
# dpkg -i debian-ports-archive-keyring_2023.02.01_all.deb

before running:

# apt update

> Thanks Adrian for keeping Debian alive on Sparc.

You're welcome.

> Now to add a second CPU to this box and up the RAM a bit.

Good idea.

Adrian

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