> > did this, only got lynx and mc; debconf seems to be tied up, as the > > loop is still running on tty1, so less wasn't configured. I'm patiently > > working through the pids, hope to find the culprit. > > If that fails, I'll rename a file at a time till the loop dies. killing > > the pid doesn't work; it just restarts! > > I'm pretty sure the cause is, or is in, /usr/sbin/tzsetup -y -g > I've missed the start of this thread, but if your woody install is looping around tzconfig and then back to asking for a password, it is almost definitely from bug #145434. You probably got your version from when it was broken. There's no need to hunt it down yourself, you can simply upgrade base-config to the latest version underneath the install and it will work. e.g. put http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/pool/main/b/base-config/base-config_1.33 .18_all.deb on a disk. After the base install you can install in /target ; from a command line chroot /target mount /dev/fd0 /mnt dpkg -i /mnt/base-config.deb umount /dev/fd0 exit continue as normal ...
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