On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:33:01PM -0800, Mike Shapp wrote: > I'm trying (for the fourth time) to install Debian 3.0 to an HP L2000 > with no luck. It works until it gets to "Install Base Files" and fails > with the message "Failure while configuring required packages" and > then "debootstrap exited with an error (return value 1)". I'm using > CD's as I don't have an internet connection.
I just want to point out we tested Debian 3.0 install with A500 and the L2000 is basically a variant of the A500 (same chipset, some changes to firmware and different motherboard/IO). > I'm installing from CD onto one of the internal 9G drives > (0/0/2/0.0.0). My partition setup is: > > sda1, Linux/PA-RISC, boot, Primary, 24MB > sda2, ext2, Primary, Mounted on /boot, 75MB > sda3, swap, Primary, 800MB > sda5, ext2, Logical, Mounted on /, 8205MB I've changed my mind and concluded this is a better layout for disks < 18GB. Consider making sda5 an ext3 file system for disks >= ~4GB. > Here's the /var/log/messages file: ... > Nov 20 18:49:31 (none) user.info dbootstrap[55]: running > '/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies --arch hppa woody /target > file:/instmnt' > Nov 20 18:51:50 (none) user.err dbootstrap[55]: Failure while > configuring required packages. hrm...that's not too helpful unfortunately. Would really need to know which package failed. Can you try "dpkg --configure --pending" from the "Execute a shell" menu? My hope is we'll get exact output of what failed. Another approach is to use a "sarge" based install CD. Has anyone tried to build HPPA install ISO's for "sarge" release? If someone points me at something "close", I could try to build a "sarge" snapshot install ISO. thanks, grant
