Re: lilo gets downloaded but not installed
Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org> writes:
> After downloading all the packages (and seemingly installing most
> of them) lilo's executable is not installed.
>
> The package is downloaded and resides in the right dir.
>
> so it is not possibel to create a bootable system.
Ouch. Is this during the debootstrap (install base) process?
> when I tried to install lilo (using /target/usr/bin/dpkg -i
> /target/.... --root=target
> dpkg complained, that the status area was empty. and in fact the
> staus file of debian is size 0. (as well as all other dpkg files
> and dirs).
>
You might need to do --root=/target perhaps? I'm ashamed to say I
haven't even tried the woody system.
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