Which image did you use? You might have caught a broken image.
The problem with Debian Ports is that the images are generated from Debian unstable,
so there is always a chance of downloading an image that is broken.
This one should work:
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-11-17/debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso
Sadly, that one fails as well.
I had repeated unpack failures - debootstrap really doesn't like unpacking util-linux. And software
installation eventually failed with
Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap: Errors were encountered while processing:
Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap: vim-tiny
Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vim-tiny:
Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: vim-tiny depends on vim-common (= 2:9.0.2087-1); however:
Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: Versio
Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: n of vim-common on system is 2:9.0.2103-1.
does install successfully:
$ uname -a
Linux debian-sparc 6.8.12-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.8.12-1 (2024-05-31) sparc64 GNU/Linux
Regards,