Re: [SLUG] Woody on Spac64

[Lance <ljb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Going to try this when I get my next 3G of bandwidth from Telstra next 
month.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Hague <jim.hague@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 3:47 am
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Woody on Spac64

> On 12-Dec-2002 Colin Humphreys wrote:
> > I have never installed woody onto a sparc box directly. I have 
> allways 
> > dist-upgrade from potato. I have an Ultra 2 lying round here, so I
> > just tried booting a potato (2.2r3) cd on it:
> 
> Try checking the Debian-Sparc mailing list archives. There was a 
> time not so
> long ago when the Woody installer was known broken, and installing 
> Potato first
> and then upgrading was the recommended way to go.
> 
> You never know, but that may still be the case.
> 
> This 'ere Ultra5 is living dangerously on Sid.
> 
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