Subject: cross-install fails from Fedora Core 3 Package: install Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line *** Following the directions http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade for a cross-install from a running Fedora Core 3 system in order to create a Debian woody [stable] system on another partition, did not work for me. I had a spare 6GB partition hda7 for ext3 root, was using a 1GB swap partition under Fedora Core, and hda1 was a 150MB ext3 /boot.
Things worked until section 3.7.5.1 Mount Partitions. I was chroot'ed into /mnt/debinst on /dev/hda7, and had the new /etc/fstab setup correctly. But "mount -a" and trying individual mounts for hda1 and hda7 failed with messages that the filesystems were already mounted or busy. Those filesystem were already mounted under Fedora Core (before the chroot).
I ignored the problem with mount, and kept going until Section 3.7.5.4 Configure Timezone, Users, and APT. Running /usr/sbin/base-config, I saw ----- # /usr/sbin/base-config Terminated # apt-cache search kernel-image Segmentation fault ----- and at this point I decided to give up. Later, I succeeded installing sarge using Network CD-ROM bootstrap.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
-- John Reiser, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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