Re: Debian "wheezy" install on Netra X1 done

On 9/3/25 17:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Dennis,

> You don't need to apply any patches, just install the test kernel:
> 
> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
> 

That didn't work so well :

nix# curl --cacert $HOME/ssl/certs/cacert.pem -L --url 
'https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb' 
-O
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Current
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100 40.1M  100 40.1M    0     0  1791k      0  0:00:22  0:00:22 --:--:-- 
1858k
nix#

nix# dpkg -i linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
dpkg-deb: error: archive 
'linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb' contains 
not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up
dpkg: error processing 
linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb (--install):
  subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
  linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
nix# file  linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb
linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb: Debian 
binary package (format 2.0)
nix#

Right.

> If you want to upgrade the machine to unstable, I would just recommend
> using debootstrap to create a sparc64 chroot on that machine on a second
> disk and then extract the kernel package above and install the kernel,
> then boot it with the correct root filesystem.
> 
> # debootstrap --no-check-gpg --arch=sparc64 unstable sparc64-chroot \
>                --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring \
>                http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
> 

Not sure what the procedure is for that ... but I will give it a try.