Bug#230458: installation-reports: Install failed
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Beta 2 Businesscard netinst from
<http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/beta2/sarge-i386-businesscard.iso>
uname -a:"Linux debian 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30:39 EST 2003 i686 unknown"
Date: 2004-01-30 18:28 -0500
Method: boot from cd-rw made from above image, used
"net debian-installer/framebuffer=false" - see below
Machine: White-box from ~1998
Processor: Pentium II 400
Memory: 64MiB
Root Device: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
Root Size/partition table: 5.6GiB
Output of lspci: not convenient to paste - system did not install
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O] - see below
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [E]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
1. Boot - I attached an ancient IBM VGA monitor for the installation since
it would run headless afterwards. When entering just "net" at the boot:
prompt, the kernel would load correctly, but the monitor would show garbage
once d-i started. D-I's colors were distinguishable on the screen, but I
believe the sync frequency was too high for this monitor. Perhaps disable FB
by default, since it doesn't appear to be used by the installer in any
special way?
2. While it was downloading the base system packages (window title
"Retrieving Packages"), it intermittently printed the literal "Verifying
%s..." instead of substituting the current package name for %s.
3. "Base system installation error" - Main display read "The debootstrap
program exited with an error (return value 127)." and suggested looking at
the log. Here is the tail of /target/var/log/debootstrap.log:
----------deboostrap.log:
Setting up libtextwrap1 (0.1-1) ...
Setting up tasksel (1.40) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libopencdk8
libgnutls7
exim4-daemon-light
mailx
at
exim4
/usr/sbin/debootstrap: 1: sleep: not found
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Note that /target/var/log/debootstrap.err.log was of size 0
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