Bug#96906: Debian installer 96906 is a real bug after all

[Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>]

Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> wrote on 12 May 2001 13:18:04 -0400:

> I cannot reproduce this.  Nor can any of my friends.  We have done
> many network installs.
> Closing this bug, it's very wrong.

I disagree. I have replicated this on my system, and it is a major pain.

Using 2.2.19pre17 rescue floppy from 'testing':

dan$ md5sum testing-rescue.144.bin
3745f3d17b0f9ad30a2859661224d815  testing-rescue.bin

with the companion root floppy: 

dan$ md5sum testing-root.144.bin
b0713b08ae5f772ef926dea0a7121d41  testing-root.bin

(sorry, they're my file names not whatever is on the download site.)

lilo_1%3a21.7.1-4_i386.deb exists as it should in /var/cache/apt/archives
after the base system install. The file appears to be valid (I unpacked it
with ar, tar and gzip.)

I am pretty sure the problem is simply that lilo isn't being installed. 

Let me know if there is any other info I can give you to help solve this
annoying problem.

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Dan Shearer
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