On 09/07/12 10:36, Bill MacAllister wrote: > --On Sunday, June 17, 2012 09:22:38 PM +1200 Michael Cree > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> And, yes, there is an alternative: >>> >>> Use debootstrap from a working computer to install straight to unstable. >> >> Done, instructions are at the AlphaLinux wiki: >> >> http://www.alphalinux.org/wiki/index.php/DebianInstall > > Thanks for this write up. I have been working through these > instructions and hit a couple bumps ending in a road block. I am > using a PWS running lenny with a 2.6.18-5-alpha-generic kernel.
A Lenny kernel will definitely not be sufficient. Unfortunately neither will the lenny-backports kernel suffice on Alpha, mainly because of many missing syscalls. > * The debootstrap on lenny does not support the --private-key switch. The Lenny debootstrap might be problematic. I used the debootstrap from lenny-backports -- I see that I have version 1.0.25~bpo50+1 installed in the Lenny partition. > The command I used was: > > # debootstrap sid /mnt http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian which probably needs some extra trickery to get debootstrap to verify the archive key somehow, of which I did work how to do once but I've now forgotten. > # mount proc /mnt/proc/ -t proc Thanks, now updated on the wiki. > * The directory /dev/pts was not created in the new root. Updated wiki with that. > * When I tried to enter the chroot I got the error: > > # LANG=C chroot /mnt /bin/bash > ... lots of validating ... > ... lots of extracting ... > I: Extracting zlib1g... > W: Failure trying to run: chroot /mnt mount -t proc proc /proc I'm not sure what is going on here. > * Then when I attempted to enter the chroot I hit the road block. > > # LANG=C chroot /mnt /bin/bash > FATAL: kernel too old Yep, you definitely need a much newer kernel than the Lenny kernel :-( > * Then I tried it upgrade the lenny kernel with the kernel from > http://www2.phys.waikato.ac.nz/~cree/. Sorry, but I think those kernels are missing a syscall needed for udev. I've just updated them now. > When I try and boot that > kernel I get the error: > > halt code = 2 > kernel stack not valid halt > PC = 200000000 I've never seen that error before. So, with debootstrap from lenny-backports and the updated kernels maybe you will have better luck. As soon as you get booted into the unstable kernel I would be looking to update the kernel to that of the unstable distribution (currently 3.2.21-3). The generic kernel from unstabel works fine however the SMP kernel still has some serious teething problems. Cheers Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
