Bug#235544: Debian-installer

[Jack Carroll <dischord@myrealbox.com>]

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: 2/28/2004 uname -a: Date: 2/28/2444 1900
Method: How did you install?  Network.  What did you boot off?  Floppies.  If
      network install, from where?  Debian US mirror.  Proxied?   No. 
      Masquerade firewall with DHCP server, running on Libranet 2.7.

Machine: Tyan S2469 SMP motherboard with on-board SCSI-320 and Ethernet
Processor: Athlon MP, one CPU installed
Memory: 512 MB
Root Device: SCSI  Name of device: /dev/sda
Root Size/partition table: 100 MB /boot, 512 MB swap, 8 GB /, 2 GB /var, 14
GB /home
Output of lspci:

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
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.  Base system install ended in the error message
	"Debootstrap ended with an error"
followed by 
	"tar: unrecognized file type"
debootstrap.log contained only a copy of
	"tar: unrecognized file type"
The error log was empty.

2.  The "Configure and lay out" screen offered to create only ext2
filesystems.  ext3 and reiser were not offered.