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Re: Installation problem



On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:56:37PM +0100, Hans Bergstr?m wrote:
> I am new to Debian and Mac and have this:
> Mac Quadra 20 MB RAM, 525 Mb disk and MacOS on a separat disk.
> Partitioning OK, swap 40 Mb, the rest root (using patched Apple Disk
> Utility)
> Up to boot no problem with Penguin 18 and linux.bin on the mac-disk.
> base2_2.tgz is beeing picked up from HFS-volume. Reboot OK from base system.
> I have a sixpack 3.0 r1 CD:s and here's my problem: The installer tells me
> to load the CD:s to get the packages index, which works. Then the
> installation de-rails - I get message "installer script fails error code
> 100" (or words to that effect). I tried dselect and everything looks normal
> apart from the fact that the installer can't unpack and install my system.
> Glad for hints and help
> Hans B

You installed potato, and have woody CD's. Probably a

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

should solve it, if /etc/apt/sources.list has been updated OK.

After that, you can restart the installer with /usr/sbin/base-config.

-- 
"The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what 
we should do with software engineers. They put the designer 
under the bridge, and then they marched over it." 
-- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003



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