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Re: Base system installation error



On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:38:44PM +0100, Johannes Behr wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i tried to install sarge/testing on my dell INSPIRON-8000
> notebook using 'net' install.
> 
> After assigning the partitions/mirror the install-process 
> starts to fetch packages and every think just looks fine
> until it stops and a red text-error-box appears:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Install the base System
> 
> Base system installation error
> 
> The debootstrap program exited with an error (return values 1)
> 
> You might find more information in /target/var/log/debootstrap.log
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I look at the /target/var/log files:
> 
> There are two files:
> 
> debootstrap.err.log: empty, zero size
> debootstrap.log: 1 line:
> 
>   tar: Unrecognized file type.
> 
> I did not find any fitting bug report so I hope to get
> some feedback on this list.
> 

When did you do that?

I did read here there where wrong tarred files
and also that it was fixed.

Please take another try
and let us know what happened.


Cheers
Geert Stappers



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