Re: Debian "wheezy" install on Netra X1 done
Hello Dennis,
On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 22:17 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> 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'
> -O
> % 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#
Modern Debian-packages are compressed with XZ which is not supported by
old versions of dpkg. You can decompress this package on an amd64 machine
running a more recent version of Debian with:
$ dpkg-deb -x linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb /target/path
Then copy the kernel over manually and run "update-initramfs -k 6.12.3-sparc64-smp -c -v
Adrian
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