Bug#36947: boot-floppies: base.tgz not found - no error message
Package: boot-floppies
Version: (Debian 2.1)
Severity: grave
Under certain conditions still to be investigated, the "Install base
system" step of Debian installation does not unpack base.tgz.
This happened while installing 2.1 from the LinuxCentral CDs, on a
machine to which I'll have access till 1999/06/07 with no problem, and
later with some geographical difficulties. This has also happenned to
me with 2.0 some months ago during an installfest - no access to the
machine any more, I could not investigate.
What happens is that the system proposes to scan the CD for base*.tgz,
or to have the user enter the path by hand. When selecting "auto",
the install process goes on, without saying that something went wrong
(during the installfest I lost hours before finding out base.tgz had
not been unpacked).
When selecting "manual" and entering the path, it works fine.
* there seem to be a difference in the ways the 2 cases are handled
* there is obviously a missing error check in a critical moment
I'll investigate next week.
More info on hw: P100, IDE CD drive, initial boot using boot.bat.
In both cases, the same CDs have already successfully installed other
machines.
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Yann DIRSON <dirson@debian.org>
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