On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:29:06PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a question and an error of installing debian-sparc on Sun-IPC. > > > > To install I used the official debian-sparc-cd's and the installation went > > fine (for me, because I did not have any experience on sparc anymore up to > > thursday this week.... :) ). > > > > But when I come the point to configure my modules, I can't do that. Laoding > > any module of the menus gives me an unresolved symbol and permission denied > > and the mesage, that these are modules from kernel 2.2.19. > > I find that hard to believe. That would be a serious bug. > > Unresolved kernel modules would be a bug in the > kernel-image-2.2.19-sun4dm (or whatever) package. > > However, we're really only working on testing (woody) now.
There are a few modules that should not be built. Most should work. > > I wondered and reboot the machine to beginn to install once more and I saw > > on the greetingsscreen of the installer, I was told, that kernel 2.2.15 is > > booted. > > That's bizarre. That screen that shows 2.2.15 is from the debian-cd welcome message. I need to just remove that for woody since sparc64/sparc32 are using different kernels. > > My question is, is it true, is the bootkernel from the disk 2.2.15 and the > > modules from 2.2.19 or is it an mistake of the greetingstext? > > > > The next one is, that I have unresolved symbols when I have a clearly > > installed debian-sparc and tried depmod -a at five modules. :( > > > > I do have only the sparc but no cd-rom, it's was borrowed from a friend, so > > can't do fuerther test, I think, or they will take a while. > > there are other ways to install -- floppy, tftp, etc. Yep, the install docs cover all of them. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
