On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:10:42AM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
>
> powerpc-utils wants to update a conffile. The prompt fails because stdin
> is /dev/null. You then get repeat 20 failures of dpkg because
> powerpc-utils never configures. This should be fixed in
> debootstrap-0.1.10. I usually hand-patch the woody script
> (/usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/woody if memory serves) to include
> --force-confold before I install base (while I wait for
> debootstrap-0.1.10 to show up ;-).
its in sid now. i think the force-confold is the wrong solution
personally. any package running into this problem is broken and
should be fixed. --force-confold is treating the symptom, not the cause.
> You should be able to run nvsetenv at VT2? (or nvsetenv boot-device).
yes
> > yeah the quik stuff is pretty much going to fail unless you have a
> > 7200, 7300, or 7600.
>
> What else is needed? I can't fully test it, but I don't mind adding it.
depends on the machine, for beige g3s, and several others it needs
non-free, non-distributable Apple nvramrc patches. some need a
different load-base. for others it requires a ritual goat sacrifice.
for some it just needs some unholy witchcraft etc...
one thing that would help is setting boot-command to that hack that
waits for the disk to spin up and tries again.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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