Hello, Where is the Packages.gz supposed to go so the installer can find it?
I have been trying to get Woody installed from the boot floppies (amigainstall.tar.gz) that I downloaded from http://www.debian.org/~cts and I am meeting with little success. I am trying out the various methods of installing Woody without using a pre-installed 2.2 system. My system is described by the dmesg output: http://www.luminet.net/~lancetag/dmesg and includes a GVP 030 combo card with 16M RAM and a SCSI hard disks, A2065 ethernet which I have into a cable modem. Currently I'm trying to install with the amigainstall.tar.gz, basedebs.tar, and the Packages.gz (the latter are a matched pair). I can walk the install through Install the Base system and point it to the basedebs.tar, and it will find it and put the files in the appropriate /target/var/* directories, and after it verifies the archives, the installer trys to find Packages.gz. The error message says that it could not find /dists/woody/main/binary-m68k/Packages.gz. So I have tried creating that path on /target, /instmnt and / to no avail. Is it an error in the boot floppies that it needs to find this file, since there is a packages file which is included in the basedebs.tar? A network install seems to die a various other points in the process, for me the latest was with the error message that it could not run: chroot /target/dpkg --force-depends --install /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-base* where * is the version from the the basedebs.tar. Suggestions on where the Packages.gz should be placed so the installer can find it? Thanks, --Lance -- Lance Tagliapietra | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Contract Software Engineer Amiga Enthusiast | TeXnically Aware | Embedded Systems Developer
