On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 08:22, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op ma 24-02-2003, om 22:00 schreef Kars de Jong: > > > > A binary that works would obviously be more convenient ;-) > > > > > > Sure. If you could try the stable version first (stable has glibc 2.2), > > > I'll try to compile you the unstable version in a potato chroot. If it > > > still doesn't work with that, you're out of luck :-P > > > > I however have glibc 2.1 ;-) > > So, regarding versions: stable -> glibc 2.2, and potato -> glibc 2.1? > > Yes. > > > You think it's possible to bootstrap woody with the potato debootstrap? > > No, that won't work. The potato debootstrap searches for a > base2_2.tar.gz, which does by this time only exist on > archives.debian.org (or something like that, not sure). > > What you _could_ do is install potato, and upgrade that to woody by > modifying your sources.list and doing an upgrade that way. Be prepared > to update a day or so if you're going that way, though.
Ouch :-P > > If that works you don't have to bother compiling, but thanks for the > > offer :-) > > You're welcome. Since you have an installed system, you might be quicker > off with a compilation you start yourself; however, my offer still > stands; I'm preparing the chroot right now. Trying it with the stable version right now, it seems to get further (it's downloading the base packages now) so I'll wait and see. If I can get to chroot stage I'll be okay :-) Thanks again :-) Kind regards, Kars.
