ar utility?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: ar utility?
started by: celloandy

Posted by celloandy on June 26 2005,07:51

I'm not really sure if this is the appropriate forum for this question, but I'll give it a go. I'm not interested in doing a DSL install, but I'm trying to install Debian on an old machine. I'd like to do a netinstall using a wireless adapter, which isn't supported by the stock Debian install, and I've seen instructions for doing the install from Knoppix, using debootstrap. Alas, this particular machine is too old and slow to run Knoppix, but DSL has ndiswrapper, so I was hoping to use it as a base from which to partition my drive and get debian installed. The only problem I'm seeing at this point is that debootstrap requires wget (which DSL has) and ar (which DSL doesn't have). Is there any way I could get a package with ar in it compiled against the appropriate libs, or, alternatively, do some sort of a static compile on another machine that would produce a binary that would work under DSL? Thanks, in advance, for any help you guys might be able to offer.

Andrew

(Oh, and mods, if this is the wrong forum, I'm sorry. Feel free to move this post.)

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on June 26 2005,14:26

ar is in gnu-utils.dsl

you will likely need gcc1.dsl too, and dsl-dpkg.dsl.

I just finished a Debian install using a wireless adapter. Wireless has been working in the Debian-installer (netinst CD) for almost 6 months.

Posted by celloandy on June 26 2005,17:06

My wireless adapter isn't supported by one of the common drivers, though (linux-wlan-ng, orinoco-cs, etc.). There's an experimental driver in progress for it (available < here >), but due to the instability reported with it, I assumed it wasn't included in the regular debian install, and I'm reasonably sure ndiswrapper isn't included, either, though, in all honesty, I haven't actually tried to install using the Debian installer, as I assumed it wouldn't work out-of-box with this card. If I'm wrong, let me know, and I'll download a Debian netinst image and give it a go.

Andrew