> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've just reinstalled debian from the base.tar.gz tarball. > > > > I had (have) three difficulties: 1) relating to the tarball 2) > > another because I was installing **over** a redhat/mklinux > > system, and 3) no editor worked. > > > > 1) dselect/dpkg uses awk to determine diskspace available. > > My awk was a mess of back and forth symlinks ultimately pointing > > to gawk, which because of glibc2 would only segfault, hence > > no disk space available, hence deselect failed. > > This is a known bug which has been addressed. The base system > currently lacks an awk. Hartmut will include one in the next > base tarball. > > > 2) I had a bunch of shell-utils, chown, chmod, etc... in path > > built with incompatible libs. Had to blow them away. > > Did you try to reinstall the shellutils.deb?
Yes, but the issue was that I have **extra** ones with wrong libc **earlier** in the path. The install scripts do not specify full path to shellutils. That would not happen on a clean install, but my install was untarred **over** a previous system. > > This libc is incompatible with most of all libc's for PowerPC > before. You cannot run old binaries with the new libc.[1] > > > 3) vi /etc/inittab (or any file) would only give me an empty screen. > > I've not figured that one out yet. > > Did you try to install a different editor? Yes. ed seemed to work, but it was easier to ftp to another machine and edit there. ;^) > > Check your TERM, LINES and COLUMNS variables. I know from other > systems that they mess up with my screen modes. Ahh, might be. > > > It may or may not be a difficulty, but I've still to figure out > > just how to convert a running system to debian without blowing > > Since the libraries this is difficult. We tried this, I believe these > trials did cost us at least half of a year - together with endless > compilations of new and old C libraries, compatibility packages, > screwing the system etc. It's not like I can wipe clean a dozen machines with users and processes. > > > everything away. I have difficulties `bootstrapping' dpkg. Apt > > seems easier, but I did not find an apt-get for powerpc. > > Try to compile it on your own. If it's not in main but in experimental > it won't be compiled regularily. Yes. After I get auto*, etc... and a functioning build environment. Getting editor going is first priority. > > > > I've included a prelimnary installation document in my powerpc web > > > pages at http://master.debian.org/~joey/powerpc/install.html. > > > > > > I need more information in order to complete it. I'd appreciate > > > if the people who recently have installed the system would send > > > me appropriate paragraphs. > > [1] You can still run them, there is a bincompat package/program/library, > but it didn't work as expected. I'm doing that on my i86 machines. > > Regards, > > Joey > > -- > *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], repartitioning Disk for Linux ... > -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 (MTRF 3-5pm) http://www.maine.com/
