Bug#115691: boot-floppies: installation failed with error "failed to chroot..."

["Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger" <wuerdinger@x-tec.de>]

stefani@quanyin.apl.washington.edu wrote:

> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: 20011015
> Severity: critical
>
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Kernel Version: Linux quanyin 2.2.19 #1 Sat Jul 28 18:31:56 EST 2001 i686 unknown
>
> error message repaeated several times, from dbg_log.tgz:
> dbootstrap[153]: Failure trying to run: chroot / target dpkg --force-auto-select --force-overwrite --force 
>
> this happened after the base installation packages had been retrieved from http://http.debian.org/   for a woody system.  
>
> i was able to make a boot floppy, and with Toms rootboot, edit /etc/fstab so that i could boot the system.
>
> at that point i could log in, and look at things, but daemons will not run, noting is getting logged to any file in /var/log  so i cannot look for errors.

I have the same problem here looks like a needed dpkg isn't downloaded.

I'm gona redo all that stuff again right now and tell you all what's 
missing.

greets Uwe
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