Hi Giuseppe, On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:45:00PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Hi Boris, > > Il giorno mer, 12/03/2008 alle 19.12 +0100, boris ha scritto:
> > install-info(/usr/share/info/coreutils.info): could not backup > > /usr/share/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: Inappropriate ioctl for > > device > > No. But I have a few questions: is this reproducible starting the > installation from scratch and repartitioning the hard disk? Could you > repeat the install using a different file system (like xfs o ext2)? Ok xfs also fails - same error but different package: util-linux I'm not sure how to repartitioning the hard disk (volume header). http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/mips/apcs05.html.en says: It can be created in the fdisk expert menu. But fdisk states: Sorry, no experts menu for SGI .... Are there some new informations? However my partition layout is: Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 141 heads, 62 sectors, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8742 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda1 boot 15 949 8173770 83 Linux native 2: /dev/sda2 swap 950 1015 576972 82 Linux swap 9: /dev/sda3 0 14 131130 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda4 0 1015 8881872 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 4 size 512 1: ide sector 5 size 343040 2: sash sector 675 size 343040 3: arcboot sector 1345 size 70376 mfg boris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
