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Re: Base system installation failed SID 3.0.24



On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:16:46AM -0700, Michael Lazar wrote:
> Hello gurus,
> 
> I'm coming from the Slackware world; and I know how to
> compile software but in the midst of installation my
> system's configuration is a bit hosed.
> 
> The error I receive is "debootstrap failed with an
> exit code of 1" within the installer and when I move
> to the other debugging screens they primarily say that
> aptitude is a dependency that is not installed. 
> 
> So I opened the console mode (F2) and ran lilo -C
> /target/etc/lilo.conf -r and tried to restart the box.
> read-only errors permeate the screen. 
> 

Were you trying to install sid directly? I think that's where this
dependiency problem would come from. Instead, start over, install
woody, then dist-upgrade to sid at the first opportunity.

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*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
|      <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual>      |
|   debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net>   |
|            Chris Tillman        tillman@voicetrak.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
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