Distro: Debian 8.1 64bit AMD Install 13 Disc Set from OSDisc.com Manufactured 14 Sep 2015
User: Dave Crosby info <at> seascalecontrols.com Washington State, USA (too close to Remond!) PC: HP desktop - 2011 vintage (or so) AMD 64 dual core Scenario: Loading new Distro from scratch from discs fails. The Problem: New distro stops unpacking/loading software about 7/8 of the way through (before loading bootloader). Unrecoverable error during loading. I investigated by reading installation syslog using the installation shell. Syslog reveals the dependency problem stated in bug 803235. This bug causes more than "makes most automatic stable update schemes fail....." ; It renders new installation of 8.1 (and presumably 8.2) from standard 64 bit disc sets impossible. The halted, but partially installed system isn't yet capable of doing an apt-get for the missing dependency like the bug report's 'systems admins' are. This seems to render the ($33) disk set worthless. I've ordered an 8.0 set which hopefully will be early enough to not have the dependency problem. Dave Crosby 11/25/15
