Hi all Jill and I are installing a Debian 3.0r1 onto a machine at home as it now has a new disk and its undergoing a new brain transplant from SUSE to Debian. We are having one problem.
We are installing from CD1; The CD is burnt from an iso image and when I mount it the directory looks fine. I dont think there is a prob with the CD. The new hard disk is partitioned fine, and all the partitions are mounted and swap done - so far so good. At the stage where we install the base system it detects that the CD we are installing from has installable packages and asks if we want to use that. Yes. It then starts to validate packages and a progress bar appears with the text "Validating /target/var/lib/apt/lists/ etc...." but then it ends with the error message: "Couldnt download libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2" We went to another tty and can see that that file is on the CD in dir /pool/main/g/gcc2.95/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-11woody1_i386.deb and its size is so 142324 bytes. We can also use cp to copy it to /tmp so its certainly readable. What we think is that maybe the installer is not sure where the file is. We even tried copying the file into the /target/var/cache/apt/archives/ which is where it appears there are many libs that are used during the base install. No luck. Help needed. -- Lord, what fools these mortals be! -- William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer-Night's Dream" Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
