Bug#60574: install fails with "Error writing /target/etc/fstab"
Joseph Sokol-Margolis <seph@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Package: base
> Version: current
We need to know what version of boot-floppies you are using. The
splash screen which is displayed with the rescue floppy boots should
tell you.
> I go through the installer, using the defaults, and it get's to the
> point were is tries to write the base system. then it says
> "error writing /target/etc/fstab"
> /target/bin/sed: 1: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
Ew.
> if I nose around VC 2, I find that /target/etc/fstab is create, and
> looks correct. I wanted to try with the latest disks, but
> ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/disks-i386/
> was empty.
Um, we're working on frozen right now. You want to use potato
(frozen), not woody (unstable).
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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