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Guido Guenther wrote:

>Hi Peter,
>On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:54:25PM +0000, Peter Horton wrote:
>  
>
>>The kernel boots okay from the HD, but I get strange segmentation faults 
>>and other errors whilst running Debian's "dpkg" to install packages. If 
>>I repeat the installation from scratch I get exactly the same errors in 
>>exactly the same places :-(
>>    
>>
>This has been reported several times. AFAIK 2.4.17 worked for several
>people, but people who actually own the hardware will now better. It
>would be a _huge_ help if somebody could track down the date in
>linux-mips.org CVS where things broke exactly.
>Cheers,
> -- Guido
>  
>

Thanks. I'll start at 2.4.17 and work my way forwards ...

P.