Woody install problem

2002-07-01 Thread Peter Kozar
Hello, after couple of recent linux installs i had to face a minor problem with the installation procedure. Using the woody disks to install a system, I used ftp download for base packages. When it is done it provides the choice of using tasksel, dselect or neither of them. Unfortunately with

Re: Woody install problem

2002-07-01 Thread Chris Tillman
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:29:22AM -0700, Peter Kozar wrote: Hello, after couple of recent linux installs i had to face a minor problem with the installation procedure. Using the woody disks to install a system, I used ftp download for base packages. When it is done it provides the

Re: Woody install problem

2002-07-01 Thread Matt Kraai
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:29:22AM -0700, Peter Kozar wrote: Is it a problem simply with the apt config in the install package, or just the link has been changed on the servers too early before woody actually would hit the stable state ? The problem[1] lies in the base-config package. It

Re: woody install problem

2002-01-22 Thread Dermot Bradley
Base installation Error debootstrap exited with an error (return value 2) In the alt-F4 screen the last two messages are: kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped /usr/sbin/debootstrap: arithmetic expression: syntax error: 0 + I'm seeing the same thing using a CD with

woody install problem

2002-01-13 Thread Egbert Bouwman
Dear woody install debugger, I am a naive end-user, but have installed slink and potato several times already. Now I try to install woody (kernel 2.2.19) from a cd-set into the 2nd hdisk: / into /dev/hdb2 /usr into /dev/hdb5 in secondary partition /dev/hdb4 /var into

Re: woody install problem

2002-01-13 Thread Chris Tillman
Your Mail-Followup-To address is incomplete. Please correct that. On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:42:29PM +0100, Egbert Bouwman wrote: Dear woody install debugger, I am a naive end-user, but have installed slink and potato several times already. Now I try to install woody (kernel 2.2.19) from

can't get passed the install (was woody install problem)

2001-07-26 Thread Robert Schweikert
OK, After continued trouble with the woody boot floppies, I am still getting the message 'Malformed file: /woody/Release', I fabricated CDs and tried to install potato. Well I am not having much more luck there. 1.) X doesn't come up, something about not being able to connect??? I know

Re: can't get passed the install (was woody install problem)

2001-07-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:35:26AM -0400, Robert Schweikert wrote: So I though I'd try to install the woody packages using apt-get, but no luck there. Here I get the message 'Can't stat file ..binary-i386/Packages'. The 'stat' utility is missing from the install, is this a separate