Re: Running debian-installer within bochs and uml

[Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
>  11. Create a file system
> Prompt: 1 - 18> 11
> Debian Installer Main Menu
> 
> Choose a configuration step
> This configuration step requires one or more configuration steps that have not
> yet been performed. Please select a configuration step to continue.
>   1. Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) (default)
>   2. I have already partitioned the hard drive
>   3. Partition a hard drive
> Prompt: 1 - 3> 2
> Warning: start=2 - this looks like a partition rather than
> the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless.
> [Use the --force option if you really want this]
> di-utils-mkfs's postinst exited with status 5120
> installer[42]: Setting main menu question priority to critical
> Debian Installer Main Menu
> 
> Similar for Mount a Partition
> or after
> # mkdir /target
> # mount /dev/ubd/0 /target -t ext2
> Prompt: 1 - 18> 13
> Debian Installer Main Menu
> 
> Choose a configuration step
> This configuration step requires one or more configuration steps that have not
> yet been performed. Please select a configuration step to continue.
>   1. Automatically Partition Hard Drives (unsafe) (default)
>   2. I have already mounted the partitions
>   3. Mount a partition
> Prompt: 1 - 3> 2
> cp: /target/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
> base-installer's postinst exited with status 256
> installer[42]: Setting main menu question priority to critical
> Debian Installer Main Menu

base-installer requires /target/etc/fstab to exist, so you'll have to
create one.

Matt
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