Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:
ok. I've done so. I'm not sure how well the BTS deals with attachments, so
I'll include excerpts below as well as a link to the full logfiles.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cg2v/debian/install-sarge-syslog-20040313
--On Saturday, March 13, 2004 14:01:48 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Are you sure you told it to format and mount the partition? This could
easily be leftovers from a previous install, and nothing that was run
unmounts /target.
Yes, I'm sure.
I also think I've found one of the
Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:
Yes, I'm sure.
I also think I've found one of the problem:
debian.mirrors.pair.com does not use any path prefix. dists and pool
are in the top level of the ftp or http root. As a result, $DIRECTORY is
the empty string.
from base-installer's postinst:
--On Saturday, March 13, 2004 15:57:18 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I looked again at your report, and one possibility is some breakage that
was present in base-installer on or about March 9th. That took a while
to get moved into testing, and I think it happened yesterday. The
You wrote:
everything went smoothly till the base-install ran. Part or most of the way
through the base install (after tasksel was configured), the d-i step menu
popped up (the progress dialog from the base system install is visible
behind the menu). If I select Install GRUB boot loader or
Chaskiel M Grundman wrote:
It appears to be reproducible if I install from debian.mirrors.pair.com
(which I had chosen explicitly, since it's nearby), but not from whatever
ftp.us.debian.org got me.
Here's the output:
Starting Setting up klogd (1.4.1-10) ...
Stopping kernel log daemon:
--On Friday, March 12, 2004 23:43:53 -0500 Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
wish that we had a better method for getting logs off the machine. If
you have some reasonable way available to do so (a floppy, save to disk
and mail them from a different installation, etc), then you could try
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 03-08-2004 i386 netboot (from ftp.debian.org)
uname -a: N/A: install failed; installer is running 2.4.25-1-386
Date: 20040310 12am
Method: PXE install
Machine: Dell PowerEdge 400SC
Processor: Pentium 4 2.8Ghz
Memory: 640MB
Root Device:
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