Bug#127677: boot-floppies: problems with reinstalling base-system
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.18-2001-12-21
Severity: minor
while trying to somehow find a basedebs.tgz I erroneously installed a powerpc basedebs.tgz on
a i386 machine. Once I understood what went wrong I (after 4h of searching!) found a i386
basedebs.tgz and installed it. But somehow the install system was not able to replace the
old/wrong installed basesystem with the new/correct one. It would keep the old one in place. So I
had to manually "rm -R" everything away, otherwise the new basedebs.tgz would not be installed.
*t
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux maladers 2.2.20 #1 Sun Nov 4 15:44:23 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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