On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:00:57AM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
On Mar 3, 2004, at 2:41 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:01:09PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:[...]
On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:14 AM, Barry Hawkins wrote:
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/ powerpc/20040226/sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso uname -a: N/A, install fails Date: 02/26/2004, 23:30 EST Method: Booted to CD-ROM by holding down C after chime, using debian.mirrors.pair.com
[...]Comments/Problems:Is there some reason that this and other powerpc installation reports
Toward the end of the install, past 70%, the following message appears:
No installable kernel found No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources.
The current default kernel package is 'kernel-image'.
You may try to continue though this strange error is probably fatal.
The debug console shows the following:
Setting up tasksel (1.44) ... chroot: cannot execute apt-get: No such file or directory
are not being followed up on?
Because the ones who care about powerpc are busy right now ? I think it
is exam time for some of them, or they are busy with other stuff. I
myself don't have a pmac, so there is not much i can do, and i think
gaudenz has gone to work on discovery mostly. Don't know about the
others.
Maybe this is the right time for you (or others) to step in and have a
go at fixing this problem, if we want to have good powerpc support by
march 15.
Anyway, i have no idea about the keyboard problem you reported, but
this kernel issue, it should not be problematic. Does choosing unstable
instead of testing make a change here ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Sven,
Thanks for the info; I didn't realize there were so few powerpc
folks! Well, I guess there's no time like the present to learn C. I have
seen posts that Alioth has moved to using Subversion; any pointers on
what I need to get started? I will begin with getting Subversion 1.0
set up on my Mac.
Well, debian-installer is mostly very basic shell scripts and common sense stuff, no need to learn C for it.
Also, for subversion, the active repository is still in CVS, altough that may change in the future.
In order to fix this problem, you could start by :
1) trying out the unstable install instead of the sarge one, and see if the problem is still there. 2) look at the exact error on console 3, if there is one, and on the messages on console 4. 3) go to console 2 and run archdetect on it, then test the base-installer postinst to see which kernel should have been installed. 4) once you know that, make sure this kernel exists. Also, check with apt-cache search kernel-image which kernels are available from your mirror.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
Sven,
Alright, I will get busy on these items tonight. One question:What is the authoritative URL for the powerpc unstable install?
Thanks, -- Barry C. Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.allthingscomputed.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
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