On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 4:53 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > Which image did you use? You might have caught a broken image. > > The problem with Debian Ports is that the images are generated from Debian > unstable, > so there is always a chance of downloading an image that is broken. > > This one should work: > > > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-11-17/debian-12.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso > Sadly, that one fails as well. I had repeated unpack failures - debootstrap really doesn't like unpacking util-linux. And software installation eventually failed with Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap: Errors were encountered while processing: Jun 11 08:34:09 debootstrap: vim-tiny Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vim-tiny: Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: vim-tiny depends on vim-common (= 2:9.0.2087-1); however: Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: Versio Jun 11 08:34:10 debootstrap: n of vim-common on system is 2:9.0.2103-1. However, the very latest snapshot from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2024-02-25/ does install successfully: $ uname -a Linux debian-sparc 6.8.12-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 6.8.12-1 (2024-05-31) sparc64 GNU/Linux Regards, -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
