On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:22:54PM +0000, Mat Withers wrote: [..snip..] > one problem though - now when it gets to extract the last package (whiptail) > I get the following error "Failure trying to run: chroot /target dpkg > --force-auto-select --force-overwrite --force" It seems debootstrap failed to configure the packages. I wonder why the installer continued. Can you spawn a shell from within the installer and check which packages are unconfigured - I fear there might be lots of them. > > /var/log/messages reports the following > > Oct 9 19:04:07 (none) user.info dbootstrap[49]: running > '/usr/sbin/debootstrap --boot-floppies --arch mips sid /target > http://ftp.uk.debian.org:80/debian' > Oct 9 19:31:27 (none) user.err dbootstrap[49]: Failure trying to run: chroot > /target dpkg --force-auto-select --force-overwrite --force > Oct 9 19:31:56 (none) user.info init: Process '/sbin/dbootstrap' (pid 49) > exited. Scheduling it for restart. > > is this important ? > > also, after finishing the install and rebooting the Indigo2 boots off it's > hard disk fine - gets as far as: > > Starting system log daemon: syslogd. > Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. > Starting internet superserver: inetd. > Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd. > Starting periodic command scheduler: cron. > > and then stops - any ideas ? I recon I must be almost there ! This looks like a messed up inittab. Try booting into single user by passing `single' on the command line and have a look at the inittab I'll bet base-config only gets spawned on tty0 not ttyS0. This might be caused by a misconfigured base-config package due to the debootstrap failure. You can try to finish the install using "base-config" in single user then. -- Guido
There's more recent boot-floppies package at: http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-mips/debian/bootdisks/ This is the current 3.0.16 build. I did not upload it into the archive since I have no time to test it and nobody else did so far. It has a newer deboostrap which might solve your problem.
