Subject: Bug#3951: Package 'kernel-image-2.' V2.0.6-0 fails to install

From: "John S. Kallal" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 10:06:00 -0400 (EDT)

Package: kernel-image-2.
Version: 2.0.6-0

When I try to install the package 'kernel-image-2.' with dpkg 
the package does not fully install per the output message of dpkg.  
The postinstall script does not run per the dpkg report and dpkg does 
not show the kernel-image as installed. (See the appended gziped uuencode 
transcript file.)  Some type of problem with the installation of the 
'kernel-image-2' package also shows up with the version 2.0.0-0 of 
'kernel-image-2' when installing with 'dselect ' program.  However, I 
have NOT made a debugging typescript file for version 2.0.0-0.

The 'kernel-image-2.' version 2.0.0-0 is off the GOLD 
Debian-1.1-i386 (dated 6-23-96) CD-ROM bought from Flexible Software.  
The 'kernel-image-2.' version 2.0.6-0 was downloaded from 
ftp:/ftp.rge.com/pub/systems/linux/debian/ and then copied to the 
/dev/hdb9 partition after installation of the BASE package from the 
three Base diskettes. 

I am using Debian 1.1, kernal 2.0.0 and libc 5.2.18.  This was a 
fresh installation of Debian and my first installation of Debian.
However, I have used the Slackware Linux distribution for 2 years.  

To produce the appended typescript file, I copied program 'script',
and 'md5sum' to '/bin' of partition /dev/hdb8.  Installed Debian using
formated partition /dev/hdb9 as '/' with unformated partition /dev/hdb 
set to mount as '/usr/local'.  (Partition /dev/hdb9 is currently a 
200MB+ test area.  Partition /dev/hdb8 is my normal '/usr/local' section
of the filesystem.)  After rebooting from the Custom Boot diskette, the 
'dselect' program was exited without installing any packages by use of 
the Q command.  Next the current BASE and DPKG package was installed 
to make sure that the problem did not come from some other package.  
Then using the /usr/local/script command the attached typescript file 
was created.  

Within the typescript file the following commands where run:

	'md5sum	*.deb'			(To check the debian packages)
	'dpkg -D773 -i kern...'		(To show the installation failure)
	'dpkg -i'			(To show what is installed)
	'dmesg'			(To show the hardware & kernel information)
	'ls -l /boot'		(To show the current state of kernel files)
	'ls -l /'		(To show the current state of kernel files)

My computer is a GATEWAY2000 Model #P5-120 with the following hardware:
	- Motherboard:		ALADDIN with Intel TRITON chipset
	- Processor:		Pentium 120 Mhz
	- Memory:		16 MB RAM (EDO)
	- Video Card:		TRIO 64V+ (with 2 MB RAM)
	- Floppy Drive A:	1.44 MB 3.5" 
	- Hard Drive 1(hda):	1.2 GB IDE (WDC AC21200H)
	- Hard Drive 2(hdb):	1.2 GB IDE (WDC AC31200F, user addon)
	- CD-ROM drive (hdc):	IDE 6X (Wearnes 6X)
	- Sound Card:		Ensoniq
	- Modem (COM1):		14400 Baud (internal, Rockwell IC, user addon)
	- Monitor:		Vivitron 15

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From: Dale Scheetz <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:53:57 -0400 (EDT)

I think that this is the perl problem I spoke of in my last e-mail to you
(sorry this is in pieces, I'm working down my list of mail)
It is my PERSONAL feeling that you should stay away from all of the kernel
packages in Debian. Get your source from the source (ftp.cs.helsinki.fi)
or from on of it's mirrors. (I have good luck with ftp.caldera.com)
Build your own kernel and install it yourself. This keeps all the options
in your hands.
It is not that I am completely against the idea of a "kernel" package in
debian, I just don't like how it's being done currently.

Luck,

Dwarf

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