On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:41:27AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > He's coming from RedHat... was very disappointed to hear of this driver > disk issue... (he claims you can do anything with RH installer, with > just 2 disks... yea, right...) So I pointed him to the idepci "flavour", hahahahaha sorry > After the install asked him whether he wants woody or sid, it "died" > trying to mount proc. (brings him back to the sid/woody screen) So he it wasn't /proc but /target/proc and this is fixed in 3.0.7 > Next, he says it tried to run ldconfig, which didn't exist. So he simply > commented that out too. yeah im sure that will help </sarcasm> > From what I understood, he got debootstrap running and downloading > packages. At some point it ran (I quote) "ar -p | zcat | tar -xv some > file", then it was "segfaulting and dying"... because he destroyed debootstrap. > After heated conversation and pointless ramblings, the "compact" flavour > (potato) worked for him. (Followed by him again saying Debian should > just copy RH's installer... hrmph.) send him back to redhat, we don't need trolls like that wasting our time. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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