Zitat von Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Manage to get around the problem. I fired up parted and tryed to check > partition 4. It said it was not clean and recommended using e2fsck. I > ran e2fsck and then chose to not use existing partition instead of > formatting it. The installer then downloads a few files and then > segfaults with: > > I: Retrieving > http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/console-common/console-common_0.7.22_all.deb > Segmentation fault > > This is installing sarge. I have tried 2 mirrors with the same result. > I might try a US mirror instead and also might try Sid instead of Sarge. > I tried Sid and US mirrors with the same problem. > I am now trying ftp instead of http and it seems to be getting further. > I get some retry warning messages. eg. > > W: Retrying failed download of > ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/core-utils/core-utils_5.0-4_powerpc.deb > W: Retrying failed download of > ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/core-utils/core-utils_5.0-4_powerpc.deb > W: Retrying failed download of > ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/core-utils/core-utils_5.0-4_powerpc.deb > > With ftp it doesn't segfault and still continues. There might be a bug > in the http protocol for wget ??? > I finally did get a segfault when trying to retrieve > libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_powerpc.deb > > Is this a problem with the kernel on the TiBook 17? I'm passing the > "nol" kernel parameter as advised by Ben H. > Maybe it's a busybox and/or gcc bug ??? I think it's not a kernel but, but a bug in busybox's shell. This shell does not work for debootstrap (the script downloading and installing the base system). You can circumvent it if you download dash-udeb (another shell without this bug). I think a patch for this has been comitted, but probably not yet uploaded.
gaudenz > > Regards, > Brendan Simon. > > > > Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > OK. So it is a busybox applet that can't be found. I'll investigate > > further. > > Brendan. > > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
