Re: bug in current (Oct 16, 2001) woody/testing installation.
Scott Prader <gnea@garson.org> writes:
> - system asks for root pw and new user(s) (fine)
> - system asks if i want to run tasksel, i say yes
> \- i select some things, then asked to run dselect, i say yes or no
> \- something goes wrong (i don't have enough hd space to hold .debs)
> so i get tossed back to "do u want to run tasksel?"
> i go through all of the package select again, but select far fewer
> packages. each time it tries to download the same list of packages
> even though i told it not to. same filesizes, same errors about
> limited hd space. otherwise this all works just fine. if you need
> any other info toss me an email.
>
> for this i used simply 2 floppy images (rescue/root) and installed
> everything via network (http). a VERY nice system. :)
I believe you hit a tasksel problem which will be fixed in 3.0.17 as
base (yet again) changes. If you could, try again with 3.0.17; if it
is still broken, I think you'd need to file a grave bug against
tasksel for breaking the install.
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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