These are my results testing debootstrap hacked to make mbr, lilo, and syslinux i386 only (as they should be). This error we can hack around by touching the file into existance -- I think that would be a good idea /sbin/ldconfig: Can't open configuration file /etc/ld.so.conf: No such file or directory Clearly, we need to add libperl5.6 to the base list. I'll do that and try again. Do you have an ETA for your fixed version that contains at least an accurate potato base based on potato boot-floppies? Should I NMU? -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onshored.com/> > /usr/sbin/debootstrap woody ./debootstrap-scratch arroz:/disk/sda1/local/src# /usr/sbin/debootstrap woody ./debootstrap-scratch trying to get http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/Release trying to get http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-sparc/Packages.gz trying to get http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/contrib/binary-sparc/Packages.gz trying to get http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-sparc/Packages.gz trying to get http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/base/tasksel_1.0-10.deb trying to get http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tcp-wrappers/tcpd_7.6-7_sparc.deb trying to get http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/netkit-telnet/telnet_0.17-9_sparc.deb extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.2.8_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/base-passwd_3.2.0_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_2.04-9_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/bsdutils_1%3a2.10s-2_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf_0.9.28_all.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_1.15_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/diff_2.7-24_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/dpkg_1.8.3.1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.19-4_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0.43-1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/findutils_4.1.6-2_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/grep_2.4.2-1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/gzip_1.2.4-33_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/hostname_2.07_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/ldso_1.9.11-9_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.2.2-4_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libdb2_2%3a2.7.7-7_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libgdbmg1_1.7.3-27_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libncurses5_5.2.20010318-1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libnewt0_0.50.8-2_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libpam-modules_0.72-9_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libpam-runtime_0.72-9_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libpam0g_0.72-9_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libpopt0_1.5-0.1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libreadline4_4.1-4_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10_1%3a2.95.2-13_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_1%3a2.95.3-10_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/login_20000902-3.1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/makedev_2.3.1-52_all.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/mawk_1.3.3-5_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.4.2-1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/mount_2.10s-2_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-base_5.2.20010318-1_all.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses-bin_5.2.20010318-1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/passwd_20000902-3.1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base_5.6.0-20_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/procps_1%3a2.0.7-4_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_3.02-6_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/shellutils_2.0.11-2_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/slang1_1.4.4-1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/sysklogd_1.4.1-1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvinit_2.78-4_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/tar_1.13.19-1_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/textutils_2.0-3_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/update_2.11-3_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.10s-2_sparc.deb... extracting /var/cache/apt/archives/whiptail_0.50.8-2_sparc.deb... /sbin/ldconfig: Can't open configuration file /etc/ld.so.conf: No such file or directory Selecting previously deselected package base-files. (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking base-files (from .../base-files_2.2.8_sparc.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package base-passwd. Unpacking base-passwd (from .../base-passwd_3.2.0_sparc.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package ldso. Unpacking ldso (from .../ldso_1.9.11-9_sparc.deb) ... perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so.5.6: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory Cannot uudecode ELF test program. Make sure you have perl installed. Aborting. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ldso_1.9.11-9_sparc.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: base-passwd: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request: base-passwd depends on libc6 (>= 2.1.94); however: Package libc6 is not installed. Setting up base-passwd (3.2.0) ... dpkg: base-files: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request: base-files depends on awk; however: Package awk is not installed. Setting up base-files (2.2.8) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/ldso_1.9.11-9_sparc.deb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]