Hi, I've been trying to follow instructions I found about installing debian in a GXemul emulated decstation. The issue I have is that shortly after reaching 'load installer components from CD', I get a failure to load archdetect. If I press back and try again, the installation proceeds a bit further but ultimately fails to copy anything to my target disk. If I go to a shell and try to run archdetect there, I get:
archdetect: /lib/debian-installer.so.4: version `LIBDI_4.5' not found (required by archdetect) I suppose gxemul is not a supported target platform, OTOH it does look like the issue might be a broken dependancy in the installer and so impact other mipsel hardware - I have not been able to actually check. Steps I took to reproduce the issue: * Install gxemul package * Make empty virtual disk: dd if=/dev/zero of=debian_pmax.img bs=1024 count=1 seek=3300000 * Get kernel from http://www.firstworks.com/mips-linux-2.4.31/vmlinux-2.4.31 (GXemul seems to have issues with serial ports in the default kernel) * Get mipsel ISO from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ (I tried daily and etch-beta3 images, netinst and businesscard). * Run the emulator: gxemul -X -e3max -d debian_pmax.img -d debian-testing-mipsel-netinst.iso \ vmlinux-2.4.31 I then followed the instructions from http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html#declinux There are two warnings to ignore before reaching the issue, related to a failure to configure the keyboard layout and a lack of modules for the kernel I used. After that I hit the archdetect issue, which I do not think to be related to either of these previous warnings. Has anyone successfully used the beta3 installer on mipsel ? Is there a way to force the subarch rather than running archdetect ? Any other advice I could use in this situation ? Thanks, -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse "Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie." -- Dennis Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]