Hi all, I'm new to Debian, but familiar with Linux. I run a couple of PowerMacs with LinuxPPC and now I tried to install a potato snapshot on one of these machines. The preparation I did are as follows: Have a booting LinuxPPC installation, prepared a 1GB partiton with mke2fs. Mounted the partition and did a tar xzpf base2_2.tgz -C /mnt/target which reflects my 1GB partition. Made the changes as told on the different how to's. Booted into the debian and was prompted to enter the runlevel. As told I typed 'S' and the I got a prompt sh2.02# Typed 'dselect' to configure the system, this is the output: --------- dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of adduser: adduser depends on perl-base; however: Package perl-base is not installed. adduser depends on passwd (>= 961025); however: Package passwd is not installed. dpkg: error processing adduser (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apt: apt depends on libstdc++2.9 (>= 2.91.63); however: Package libstdc++2.9 is not installed. dpkg: error processing apt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up libc6 (2.1.1-12.2) ... Current default timezone: 'US/Eastern'. Local time is now: Wed Dec 31 21:42:03 EST 1969. Universal Time is now: Thu Jan 1 02:42:03 UTC 1970. Run `tzconfig' if you wish to change it. /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of base-files: base-files depends on awk; however: Package awk is not installed. dpkg: error processing base-files (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ae: ae depends on libc6 (>= 2.1); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. ae depends on slang1 (<< 1.3); however: Package slang1 is not installed. ae depends on slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0); however: Package slang1 is not installed. dpkg: error processing ae (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of diff: diff depends on libc6 (>= 2.0.92); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing diff (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bash: bash depends on libc6 (>= 2.1); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. bash depends on libncurses4 (>= 4.2-3.1); however: Package libncurses4 is not installed. bash depends on libreadlineg2 (>= 2.1-8); however: Package libreadlineg2 is not installed. dpkg: error processing bash (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debianutils: debianutils depends on libc6 (>= 2.0.93); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing debianutils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsdutils: bsdutils depends on libc6 (>= 2.1); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bsdutils (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of base-passwd: base-passwd depends on libc6 (>= 2.0.92); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing base-passwd (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: adduser apt libc6 base-files ae diff bash debianutils bsdutils base-passwd -----------
Now I don't know how to get further. As it seems to I can't install or upgrade anything, it always complaines that libc6 isn't configured. Having a look at the command /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: No such file or directory gives me the impression that something lacks or is not configured right. Typing the line above by hand I get a INIT 2.76 and afterwards the prompt. Any help would be great Thanks Andreas
