On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:39:09AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > A friend of mine tried to install woody with nfsroot recently, i.e. > on a sparc with no local hard disk used, but through an nfs exported > directory. > > This was not possible, probably due to this bug: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2002/debian-cd-200205/msg00154.html > > In short: debootstrap fails because dpkg fails because setting a lock > on NFS fails. > > Any chance to get this fixed for a woody point release? This may > require a change in dpkg, though. Unfortunately I don't have enough > spare time at the moment to work on it on my own.
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