Re: Debian "wheezy" install on Netra X1 done
On 9/3/25 17:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Dennis,
You don't need to apply any patches, just install the test kernel:
https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
That didn't work so well :
nix# curl --cacert $HOME/ssl/certs/cacert.pem -L --url
'https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb'
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% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time
Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left
Speed
100 40.1M 100 40.1M 0 0 1791k 0 0:00:22 0:00:22 --:--:--
1858k
nix#
nix# dpkg -i linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
dpkg-deb: error: archive
'linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb' contains
not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
dpkg: error processing
linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
nix# file linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb: Debian
binary package (format 2.0)
nix#
Right.
If you want to upgrade the machine to unstable, I would just recommend
using debootstrap to create a sparc64 chroot on that machine on a second
disk and then extract the kernel package above and install the kernel,
then boot it with the correct root filesystem.
# debootstrap --no-check-gpg --arch=sparc64 unstable sparc64-chroot \
--include=debian-ports-archive-keyring \
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
Not sure what the procedure is for that ... but I will give it a try.
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
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