I have just tried your potato-install.iso, and keyboard selection did not work since /tmp is read-only. One might add
mkfs /dev/ram0 1024 mount /dev/ram0 /tmp to fix that. Regards, /Karl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Aspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 +46 173 140 57 S-742 94 Östhammar Unix for the small company Sweden +46 70 511 97 84 (mobile) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: need bootable Sparc CD Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:55:24 -0500 > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:36:38PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote: > > I would like to get a full CD of the latest (2.1r5) version of Debian > > for Sparc. Of the various vendors of Debian CDs out there, they all > > fall under 1 of 4 categories: 1: dead or unreachable, 2: too lame to > > navigate, 3: are unclear about what the CD is (no version information), > > 4: don't offer 2.1r5. > > 2.1r5 is too new to find any CD vendors with it (most still have r4 I'm > sure) > > > Maybe someone can make a custom CD? > > I might be able to. No guarantees, but let me see. > > > It has been suggested to me that I just install an earlier verion and > > run apt to upgrade. However, it has been my experience that upgrading > > which involves replacing an older version with a newer version can > > (this means does not always, but in some cases has been known to) cause > > problems itself. I've personally experienced this on way too many > > different systems to be ready to accept an advocate telling me that > > Debian would be an exception. I'm willing to be open minded to that > > idea AS I LEARN DEBIAN ... but for my first install, I want to do it > > all in one pass first, and come back and play around with it later. > > Well, you asked for it :) Debian is *the* exception. We do not release a > whole new dist (and I mean major upgrades like 2.1 to 2.2) that cannot do > seemless upgrades. It's what we pride ourselves on. So 2.1r4 to 2.1r5 is a > cake walk (there are only ~15 packages that changed from r4 to r5, IIRC). > Believe me, it is nothing to upgrade a Debian system using apt-get. > > > While exploring some areas on the web site some people have suggested, > > one possible approach has come to mind. A network install would have > > 3 basic steps: 1: get the kernel booted, 2: install the base system, > > 3: boot the base system and run apt against an HTTP collection of the > > rest of the files to build the full system. The web site listed a > > number of different ways to do this, but as it turns out, my situation > > prevents me from doing steps 1 and 2 in a viable way. Thus I have > > this suggestion, and I bring it up because it seems so obvious to me > > that maybe someone has actually done this already and might have such > > a thing available. > > > > The suggestion is, a mini-ISO, burnable into a bootable CD, that does > > the installation of ONLY the base system. Then from that base system > > the installation can continue via the network. > > > > I would need a Sparc version of this, if anyone has ever put such a > > thing together. How big would a base-only mini-ISO CD be, anyway? > > I would think it could be squeezed to under 40 meg. > > Wow, you just caught me right before posting this info to the list. I have > a 63 meg bootable ISO image for sparc. However it is potato (2.2 > upcoming). IMHO, it is actually much more stable than 2.1rX (for sparc that > is). You should really consider this your best option: > > ftp://marcus.debian.net/pub/debian/disks-sparc/ > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
