On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 11:51:12AM +0100, Gaby Schilders wrote: > I already found out that it is indeed packages > breaking during install. In this case groff-base > didn't install so it hung on groff and man-db not > installing. Nice to know but I have two remarks: Right, I'd forgotten which packages in particular. > please put the error from apt-get instead of the error > that debootstrap generates to make debugging easier > for the non-initiated. Secondly I think the install > shouldn't break on base-packages, especially when > doing a net-install. (I did try a different > install-site, It's a bit more complex than that, but I agree that error isn't obvious. It bit me and it took me a while to discover what was going on. Of course, once base is frozen, we won't have quite these problems. For instance, I believe that groff got split and debootstrap downloads "base" packages by name and doesn't do dependency checking. This just isn't something that you normally have to worry about with a stable system. > nada. The previous set of bootfloppies gave the same > problems altough they had worked a few days earlier. > They had their own hiccups so I decided to try these > for re-doing the install... my bad... now I have > nothing ;P) The problem isn't strictly in boot-floppies (although debootstrap now installs groff-base). boot-floppies, in particular debootstrap, downloads packages from a mirror. If a package is broken in the mirror, then boot-floppies breaks even if nothing has changed in the boot-floppy code. > Btw, who do I go to for suggestions on features and > changes? debian-boot@lists.debian.org Subscription and archive information is available off of <http://debian.org>. The code is available anonymously from cvs.debian.org feel free to make patches and send them to the list. > p.s. I _love_ the two floppy net-install using compact. That's my main installation for most of my production systems (potato). Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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