Bug#60180: Should detect previous installation attempt and explicitly ask for really installing over
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.2.8
Severity: critical
Currently, if I install the drivers again from the driver floppies without
reformatting the target partition, ("Installing Operating System and
Modules" in the menu) then the next choice after loading and installing from
drivers.tgz is "Make Linux Bootable", so I don't even get offered the chance
to reconfigure the Device Driver Modules.
The system should explicitly ask me if I want to reconfigure the modules
(something like "Previous driver configuration was found. Do you want to
reconfigure?), and then "Configure Network" and so on...
Moreover, if I manually choose Configure Device Driver Modules from the
menu, strange things happen:
1. right after pressing Enter on "Configure Device...", a message like
Mar 11 04:49:09 (none) user.info dbootstrap[30]: depmod: error reading ELF
header: No such file or directory
appears on tty3;
2. At the same time, on tty1 I get two error messages like:
/target/bin/sed: error in loading shared libraries: /target/bin/sed:
undefined symbol: _IO_stdout_
3. After I get the "Select Category" and I choose any category, I get the
same errors ("/target/bin/sed: error in loading shared libraries:
/target/bin/sed: undefined symbol: _IO_stdout_") uncountable many times, and
the category sub-menu contains lines like:
"- (No description available)"
Regards,
csani@lme.linux.hu
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