Bug#127677: boot-floppies: problems with reinstalling base-system
Is it appropriate to Cc: you? Or do you guys get the bugreport anyway?
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Philip Blundell wrote:
> In message <[🔎] 1010345626.3c38a69a7165d@sourcepole.ch>, Tomas Pospisek? writes:
> >That when something breaks during install of the basesystem, as f.ex.
> >a disk error etc., a newby will *not* be able to finish the installation.
> >He will have to start from scratch (reformat partition!)
>
> What stops the old base system from just being overwritten? Did you see an
> error message? If so, what was it? There shouldn't be any need to remove
> the old files first.
No I haven't seen any error. It just wouldn't work (chroot would complain
about non-ELF format afterwards, since there still was the powercp stuff).
> That said, I don't think that failures while installing from basedebs.tgz
> are worth busting a gut to legislate for. Once basedebs.tgz is in the right
> place in the archive it should be much less likely that people are going to
> make the mistake you did and install a totally bogus archive;
talking about basedebs.tgz - it'd be nice to either remove the option to
"install base from floppy" (it's in the choice menu when you go choose to
install the base system) or to provide those disks (like it was in potato)
as well (unfortunately that will be *many* disks now!). Otherwise it's
just confusing.
> and considering
> that this stuff is being both read from and written to a local hard disk,
> the possibility of transient problems seems quite remote too. (As opposed to
> debootstrap, where there is a real danger that a brief network outage might
> screw you up halfway.)
>
> And, in the worst case, having to go back and reinitialise the partition is
> hardly the end of the world.
I do agree with you that it's not the end of the world. But IMO it's
strange that something like this happens, which tells me that there's
something wrong maybe there are a couple other problems that come
together to create this effect. It can be expected that this will affect
you elsewhere as well.
And thanks to all of you there doing the work on the install system!!!
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