From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from megatonmonkey.net (cr821974-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com [24.112.53.173]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71346482A for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:22:08 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:22:51 -0400 From: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." To: Richard Hirst Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, baldric-exec@baldric.uwo.ca Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Users staying up to date. Message-ID: <20010828002251.L28978@megatonmonkey.net> References: <20010814154037.I25258@megatonmonkey.net> <20010815010034.K22144@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20010814215030.A26703@megatonmonkey.net> <20010815041610.M22144@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20010817155340.C8649@megatonmonkey.net> <20010828000748.G7064@linuxcare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010828000748.G7064@linuxcare.com>; from rhirst@linuxcare.com on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 12:07:48AM +0100 List-ID: > > The installer starts with a bunch of .debs which are sufficiently new > that they don't have the apt-segv problem. That is the case for the > 0.9.2 ISO, anyway. > > You might me able to do a fresh install from the 0.9.2 ISO to get a > more stable system. If you don't want to do that, you could try using > dpkg -i to install .debs from that ISO. Possibly a dpkg -i *.deb in > the binary-hppa/base dir might just work. You should probably be running > a new(ish) kernel before you do that. > > Richard > Richard, I think the main issue was that we were using a _really_ old kernel. Which didn't have a lot of the later patches for the older 715 boxes. I'm currently trying to roll the toolchain from start to end, and automate the process a little. BTW, is there any automation setup for building the toolchain? Does each developer just have their own way(tm) of doing the build? The problem I have now lies in gathering up-to-date src for glibc, and as Matthew pointed out, it is only available from the debian packages. I'm currently trying this out. Cheers, Carlos.