On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 07:16:45PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian> Hello, I have an old sparc IPC workstation, and am trying > Brian> to install Debian testing on it, using boot disks created > Brian> on 2001-10-27. > > On other comment: it says "Extracting .../whiptail..." for a long > time. > > The first time this happened, I thought it had crashed. The fact I > didn't have tty2 available to check didn't help :-(. The next time I > found it was unpacking all the packages again with dpkg (very slow > process on this computer...). > > Of course, the debug output is on ALT+F4, but I was confused when > ALT+F1 said unpacking whiptail, but ALT+F4 said unpacking libc6... > > I find the current behaviour confusing, and think the message should > change after it has unpacked whiptail.
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