Re: I am having problems installing sarge testing from floppies
On Feb 21, 2004, at 6:14 PM, David Williams wrote:
I went to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and downloaded
the boot,root and
network drivers floppies.
I am using these to install sarge testing
...
installed on it and I already have the 6Gb ext2 partition ready to
install onto. I get past mounting
/ on the ext2 partition and the installer downloads and then starts
installing the base packages.
I then get
!! Install the base system
Base system installation error
The debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 127).
You might find more information in /target/var/log/debootstrap.log
The only error in the debootstrap.log is at the end:-
Setting up libtextwrap1 (0.1-1) ...
Setting up tasksel (1.43) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
lilo
/usr/sbin/debootstrap: 1: sleep: not found
I can send the full debootstrap.log if needed. I have seen one
reference to this but it suggests
using the woody debootstrap. I am not sure how to do this since I am
using floppies. I do not
want to use CD's since I will be installing regularly and I don't want
to keep on burning CD's.
[I am trying to keep up with all the major distributions -
Redhat,Slackware,Debian,
Suse (not yet installed!).]
Any idea how I can proceed or when a new installer with the fix will
be available?
Kind Regards,
David.
David,
I experienced a similar error and was referred to the following bug:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200401/
msg00811.html
Please note that this bug and my installation error were using the
PowerPC port of Debian, using the sarge-powerpc-businesscard.iso to
install the testing distribution. Not sure if that helps you, but
perhaps it will.
Regards,
--
Barry C. Hawkins
All Things Computed
site: www.allthingscomputed.com
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