Hi, I've been getting a "beating" trying to install debian... First I was going to do 0.93, but it looks to me like tsx-11.mit.edu no longer has it? The debian-0.93 directory over there disappeared... So I went ahead and started attempting 1.0.
Maybe I'm having problems because I'm trying to install over an older distribution (slackware)? I went through all the steps (with the 5 floppies), then did a "dftp getlist" then "dftp getselect", to grab all of the packages... Then set up a packages file for doing the dpkg. Here's the output from script. I ctrl-c'ed in the middle because of the errors, but I don't know why it's segfaulting. (It looks like tar is segfaulting?) Please take a look: Script started on Thu Nov 9 15:14:05 1995 [?1h=# exit # dpkg --unpack --no-also-select `cat Packages` # more Packages[K # dpkg --unpack --no-also-select `cat Packages` [?1l>dpkg-split: unable to read part file `debian-1.0/binary/admin/at-2.8a-2.deb': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/admin/at-2.8a-2.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2 dpkg-split: unable to read part file `debian-1.0/binary/admin/cfengine-1.2.14-1.deb': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/admin/cfengine-1.2.14-1.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/admin/cpio-2.3-2.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-split: unable to read part file `debian-1.0/binary/admin/cron-3.0pl1-20.deb': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/admin/cron-3.0pl1-20.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/admin/hdparm-2.3-0.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/admin/lilo-16-0.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/admin/mt-st-0.2-3.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/base/adduser-1.94-3.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-split: unable to read part file `debian-1.0/binary/base/base-1.0.6-13.deb': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/base/base-1.0.6-13.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/base/bash-1.14.4-2.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/base/bsdutils-1.3-1.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/base/chfn-1.0-4.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 dpkg-deb: subprocess tar killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped dpkg: error processing debian-1.0/binary/base/diff-2.7-5.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 [?1h=# ls -la [?1l>total 794 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Nov 9 15:12 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 9 15:00 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24822 Nov 9 14:16 .packages-all -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12293 Nov 9 14:33 .packages-downloaded -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155453 Nov 9 15:00 .packages-ftplog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 9 13:30 .packages-installed -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24588 Nov 9 14:31 .packages-list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 379396 Nov 9 14:31 .packages-ls-laR -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 9 13:30 .packages-prev-list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13542 Nov 9 14:32 .packages-selected -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7099 Nov 9 15:14 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140263 Nov 9 14:31 Packages-Master drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 9 14:14 contrib drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 9 13:42 debian-0.93 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 9 14:14 debian-1.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31492 Nov 9 13:59 dftp drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 9 13:42 non-free -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 Nov 9 15:14 typescript [?1h=# exit Script done on Thu Nov 9 15:14:33 1995
