Re: Debian "wheezy" install on Netra X1 done

On Thu, 2025-09-04 at 07:59 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello Dennis,
> 
> On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 22:17 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > 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
> >    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
> > Current
> >                                   Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left 
> > Speed
> > 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#
> 
> Modern Debian-packages are compressed with XZ which is not supported by
> old versions of dpkg. You can decompress this package on an amd64 machine
> running a more recent version of Debian with:
> 
> $ dpkg-deb -x linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb /target/path
> 
> Then copy the kernel over manually and run "update-initramfs -k 6.12.3-sparc64-smp -c -v

Copy vmlinux, System.map and config into /boot and the modules into /lib/modules.

Adrian

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