Re: woody boot floppies woes
I assume you are suing current cvs? I've gotten a somewhat functioning system
installed with current cvs and other have too.
Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:13:02PM -0400 wrote:
>
> Uhm, has *anyone* succeeded to install a machine using the woody boot
> floppies? So far, I've just met with utter failure.
>
> Every time I try to install the base system over the network the
> machine prints "trying to get package" messages for a whole bunch of
> packages, and then returns me to the menu with "Install the Base System"
> still as the Next item.
>
> Virtual terminal 3 contains the message:
>
> command /usr/sbin/debootstrap woody /target http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian returned 256
>
> I can't seem to avoid this. Anyone see anything like this before?
That isn't too helpful is it. I've seen it before, but not for a while.
>
> The downloading seems to succeed. At least, /target/var/cache/apt/archives
> is full of packages, but it just won't ever unpack/install them.
>
> I'm going to completely wipe the machine now and try again.
>
> Eric
>
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