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Re: tried to install sarge tonight, but failed



Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 2) slight bit of UI complaints.
> 
> a. The section where you partition and format the disc works well but when you 
> finish with all of the partitions it takes you back to the disk detection 
> page.  Having used the old installer for a long time it felt like the install 
> had futzed.  Then I noticed the "finish" option.  I understand that the 
> intent is for the user to be able to partition multiple disks, but perhaps 
> something could be done here?

We're in the process of trying to throw this away in favor of a new
system, unformatatly the new system has UI problems of its own.

> b. Between me selecting "yes detroy my disks" and the next screen there was a 
> long -- around a 90 seconds -- pause.  If it was not for the disk noice I 
> might have thought the install had locked up on me.

Also fixed in new system (partman).

> 3) so install proceeds along and then dies )-:  I get an error 127 and so I 
> flip over to vt2.  I see 'sleep command not found' and 6 packages which 
> failed to install.  The root seems to be libgcrypt7 which was not downloaded, 
> but a different version of libgcrypt was (1.11 or somesuch).  This led to:
> 
> libopencdk7
> libgcrypt7
> libgpg-error0
> at
> exim4-daemon-light
> 
> all failing.  So, I am now going to try an install for unstable.

Yep, you need to get at least the udebs from unstable. debootstrap-udeb
in testing is broken and cannot install with what is currently in
testing. I'll get this fixed (propigated) in a day or two.

debian-boot@lists is a more usual place for these reports these days.

-- 
see shy jo

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