[Debian] installer:E: Could not find the following binaries: ar and few questions
I tried today to install Debian on uSD following the instructions on the wiki but I received an error after typing the ./install.sh command: # [options] ./install [options] all # E: Could not find the following binaries: ar But in the debian repository there are no packages named ar, maybe ara? If so, a correction of the install script is needed. I have few questions :) 1) I read of poeple using kernel and rootfs in only one partition with uBoot. to do that, are correct the following options? # TASKS=ALL SINGLE_PART=true ./install.sh --part1-fs ext3 --part1-size size MB --swap-size size MB all 2)I have a 8GB Kingston uSD, a reasonable swap size? is 512MB enough? 3)what is the function of the environment variable SD_PART2_FS if in the script there is no SD_PART2_SIZE? it would be useful to set a second partition for data storage thank you! -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Debian-installer-E-Could-not-find-the-following-binaries-ar-and-few-questions-tp4419824p4419824.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Debian] installer:E: Could not find the following binaries: ar and few questions
Joif fdvj...@vodafone.it writes: # E: Could not find the following binaries: ar But in the debian repository there are no packages named ar, maybe ara? If so, a correction of the install script is needed. apt-file search bin/ar shows that ar is part of the binutils package. However the script can not install any debian packages if it has no ar :-) What distro are you using that has no ar? 2)I have a 8GB Kingston uSD, a reasonable swap size? is 512MB enough? With 128M of RAM that is gigantic amount of swap :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Debian] installer:E: Could not find the following binaries: ar and few questions
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Joif fdvj...@vodafone.it writes: # E: Could not find the following binaries: ar But in the debian repository there are no packages named ar, maybe ara? If so, a correction of the install script is needed. apt-file search bin/ar shows that ar is part of the binutils package. However the script can not install any debian packages if it has no ar :-) What distro are you using that has no ar? I'm using QtMoko v16b Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: 2)I have a 8GB Kingston uSD, a reasonable swap size? is 512MB enough? With 128M of RAM that is gigantic amount of swap :-) I have to get used to the hardware of the neo freerunner :D -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Debian-installer-E-Could-not-find-the-following-binaries-ar-and-few-questions-tp4419824p4420277.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Debian] installer:E: Could not find the following binaries: ar and few questions
What distro are you using that has no ar? I'm using QtMoko v16b unmodified image, i guess? as last resort you may fetch the binutils armel package from any debian repository and extract ar from it on another computer. according to ldd on my x86 right now it needs $ ldd /usr/bin/ar linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb78bd000) libbfd-2.20.so = /usr/lib/libbfd-2.20.so (0xb77d5000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb77d1000) libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb77bc000) libc.so.6 = /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7675000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb78be000) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Debian] installer:E: Could not find the following binaries: ar and few questions
ok installing binutils did the trick but now I received another error: - *** * WARNING * *** This will destroy all the data on the microSD card!!! Press any key within 5 seconds to quit read: 1: Illegal option -t * Clearing MBR of SD. Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xdc498101. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 243200. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Warning: invalid flag 0x of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) ./install.sh: 1: arithmetic expression: expecting primary: -(*256/7969) - -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Debian-installer-E-Could-not-find-the-following-binaries-ar-and-few-questions-tp4419824p4421061.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
