* Michal Suchanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-24 16:21]: > I tried installing Debian on a SGI O2. The mirror I selected did not > have the arcboot and bvhtool packages for some reason. I could see > errors in the fourth VT but the installer happily finished as if > nothing happened.
Yeah, I think this is because the installation script cannot check whether arcboot was properly installed. I didn't write that code but looking at it I find this comment: # Install arcboot only after arcboot.conf is created since the arcboot # postinst fails in a chroot. # # HACK ALERT! # The arcboot postinst wants to read $bootdev from debconf _in the chroot_, # which is still empty. We ignore the resulting apt-install error and do the # install ourself. If apt-install fails for a different reason, we are lost. I don't know if there's a better solution to this. Maybe the value could be pre-seeded? Joey/Frans? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
