Joerg Rieger helped out: Personally I've never tried to make a Sparc Debian ISO image but I've create serveral OpenBSD Sparc ISO images on an Intel machine and all the CD's were bootable, so it works. :-)
> Here is a logfile: > /mnt/cvs/debian-cd/tools/boot/woody/boot-sparc: ar: command not found perhabs here is the Sun ar command expected instead of GNU ar or isn't installed at all or not in your path settings ? Hello to the list and Joerg. Yes, the ar command was truly missing. binutils was installed, so it is a mystery. >Making the binary CDs bootable ... >Running tools/boot/woody/boot-sparc 1 /mnt/tmp/woody-sparc/CD1 >/mnt/cvs/debian-cd/tools/boot/woody/boot-sparc: ar: command not found > >gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file >tar: Child returned status 1 >tar: ./boot/cd.b: Not found in archive >tar: ./boot/second.b: Not found in archive >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors >Running tools/boot/woody/boot-sparc 2 /mnt/tmp/woody-sparc/CD2 I checked to see if binutils was installed and yes, it was. The binutils was there during the machine's latest upgrade. To remedy the situation I settled on installing binutils-multiarch because of my sparc CD task. Then I saw all the new links it made and chickened out: apt-get remove binutils-multiarch Then the ar command showed up. Hmmm... I guess it fixed the path or something. The debian-cd works right to the end now. A new set of sparc bootable CDs was made from an ix86 machine. Now we go and see if it is indeed bootable. Thanks for making me search out the d@#$%# ar command. Cheers, Bill Bennet "Where the only monopoly we support has a Boardwalk and a Baltic Avenue." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
