Re: Debian-installer - tar: unrecognized file type

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:38:43PM +0100, karl.kappel@segmueller.de wrote:
> >> 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.
> >I get exactly the same, but on an old Pentium I, using floppy disks too.
> 
> >I have built the installer - type "netboot" - from cvs sources on a 
> >powerpc system, 
> >and get the same error.
> >I tried different mirrors in different countries but the problem is still 
> 
> >the same.
> 
> >Was somebody able to fix this problem?
> 
> I've got no answer for this problem and all the other postings in this 
> list with the
> same error ended without a solution. 

For a short time there was tar programma the produced tar files
that busybox, the program that debian-installer use for tar, not could handle.

AFAIK it is fixed.

> In /target/var/cache/apt/archives I found packages with character sequence
> "1%3a" in its name. 
<snip/>

Try a recent version.


Geert Stappers