Re: woody idepci bootdisks broken? (dpkg-script after ftp?)
Woody hasn't been released yet. There's no final installer for it (scroll thru
the debian-boot mailing for details). Best thing you can do is yes, install
potato and 'apt-get upgrade' to woody.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:14:24PM +0200, kleistereimer@gmx.de wrote:
> 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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