On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:15:38PM -0700, Justin Guyett wrote: > This is mainly for sparcs, though I would imagine it applies to all > architectures (perhaps embedded arm/x86 systems with one or two serial > ports). > > netra t1s have only two serial ports, absolutely no video device or > anything else. The menu-based installation is made useless for anyone who > isn't very experienced in debian installation by the constant init > messages about the failure to start a process in a 3rd tty. This is with > the 2.2r3 cd set (really only the first cd), presumably the same problem > exists on the boot floppy images. > > perhaps wait instead of respawn (presuming that's a solution; I haven't > looked at the inittab so I don't know exactly what debian boot-cds do in > that 3rd tty, or whether it's critical or not, though it shouldn't be.
That's very interesting since I specifically tested these images on serial consoles. Unless something changed in potato boot-floppies that I wasn't aware of (which is entirely possible). Could you try the images here: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/ Thanks. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
