woody idepci bootdisks broken? (dpkg-script after ftp?)

[kleistereimer@gmx.de]

hi !

soon after i succesfully installed potato 2.2r2 via ftp
and the idepci flopyps,      (WORKED GREAT!!)
i tried the same for woody.

problem was that after it downloaded a lot of .deb files, only
a few of them seemed to become installed.

after installation i had to choose to make the box bootable.
either way (mbr/bootdisk) failed due tu a missing lilo executable
in /target.  

so the 'lilo' script died with: if not -x /usr/bin/lilo exit("problem").
(or like that)

so i guess someone updated the (lilo + other) packages (names),
but not the deflate (dbpk) script to install them by the new name.
(the lilo-package even had a percent character in its name...)


noone other seems to have this problem (many seems to install woody with the
potato set anyway) (carefully searched news+web using google)

what can i do?  i understand that it is testing, but a lot of people 
use woody, so after all they had to install it somehow. please help.

'dpkg lilo*deb' failed due to a 'apt-database not found' or so. 

- i completely dosformated the hdds before mke2fs / + /boot with installer. 
- i checked for badblocks + last of /boot < 1024. swap 20MB as first part.
- i downloaded the woody idepci 1.4 disks twice on new floppys (11.apr ones)
- i tried on 2 boxes (with eepro card) 486dx2-66 8/250mb & p133 50/2000MB
- i underclocked the p133 to 100, and set the ram-speed to lowest.
- i tried aproximately 5 times for each box. (with/without proxy)
- i used http://http.us... and http://ftp.de. (seemed to work both so far)
- i tried ne2000 and wd networking-cards additionaly. (dont ask why :-( )

-once i've seen a crazy error on console 3 : debain-cd not found!
 directly after download of the deb-files. dunno why. (was FTP!)
 (needed restart to escape) ->unplugged the cd-drive then.

so plain: i'm stuck.  please help. 

next i will try is installing potato on both boxes, and 'bunk' them up.
(need for iptables)

thanx.

please email me too if possible as i'm a user and dont subscribed to every
debian-devel-list. thanx. 

    kleistereimer.

ps: minor oddity: installer requests the rescue floppy twice.
(should/could be cached(??))
   + netcard-moduleloader asks 'are you sure' + next dialog has a
cancel-button.  
  if you go a lot of times throught this procedure, you wont like it.
(dont laught here!)

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