Bug#137992: base installation fails because of missing package

[Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de>]

Hi Phil!

On 12 Mar 2002, Phil Blundell wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 12:41, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > 	Couldn't download pppoeconf
> >
> > This package is indeed not on the first CDROM. I already tried the
> > following alternatives:
> >
> > * downloading an image from a different mirror
> > * checking md5sums (all were okay)
> > * building a jigdo image today
> > * net installation over ftp from ftp.de.debian.org
> >
> > All of these failed.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that the network install failed.  Even if pppoeconf
> is not on the CD, it's in woody and you should have been able to
> download it from the FTP site.  Was there any clue as to what went wrong
> in that case?

I don't know the installation system exactly, but I suppose that there
is a list of packages that belong to the base system. The list on the
CDROM was probably wrong, so it did not use the net version neither. I
booted from CDROM and first tried the CDROM install. After the failure
I repeated the base installation process with the network option.

I am pretty clueless now. Today it was just a trial, but next week I
have to install Debian on a system that is not connected to the
internet (not even a modem), so I must find a proper solution. I try
to get my old CDs back, install from these and update the system with
my new CDs; but that doesn't help the actual problem, doesn't it.

Would it help if I sent the jigdo file I used? Maybe some of you guys
have the possibility to try the CD image I used as well (www.debian.de
-> Debian on CD -> testing -> any mirror -> woody-i386-1.raw, dated
March 8 2002).

Thanks again,

Martin
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Martin Pitt
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