For a month I"ve been trying to do a hard-disk (cross) installation of sarge from a running system that also runs sarge. The target partition is 500 Mb on a SCSI disk.
1. The partitioning with cfdisk went smoothly. The target partition, sdc1, was made primary and bootable. Other partitions were created. 2. Initialized the partitions with mkreiserfs. This also went smoothly. Initialized the swap partition. 3. Mounted /dev/sdc1 and did: cdebootstrap sarge /mnt/debinst http://http.us.debian.org/debian, and while there's a history here, my current run finished normally. The problem is that /usr and /var directories are empty. I struggled with this with debootstrap for a while, although usually the /var partition was filled, but never /usr until advised to use cdebootstrap. That went well and partitions were filled, but for a reason irrelevant here, I started again from the beginning, and now cdebootstrap wouldn't fill /var and /usr. All the base packages were downloaded and unpacked, but for some reason one or more directories not seen. Adding the --arch i386 option did not help. I checked permissions and ownership of the directories. I'm currently slowly moving ahead by doing everything piecemmeal, starting with copying over the dpkg and working with it. What are the possible causes of this inability to access one or more directories during the installation of base packages? I've tried a dozen times from the beginning, and one or more directories always ended being empty except that one time; which apparently was an accident. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
