You wrote: > everything went smoothly till the base-install ran. Part or most of the way > through the base install (after tasksel was configured), the d-i step menu > popped up (the progress dialog from the base system install is visible > behind the menu). If I select "Install GRUB boot loader" or "Install base > system" it goes to the "install base system" step and complains that the > target is unclean. proceeding from there despite the warning results in a > "base system install error" because /target/usr/bin/awk already exists. I think one possibility is that it might have failed to download a package, although you should have gotten an error dialog and the progress bar should have been taken down. Can you reproduce this problem, and is so what are the last 5 or 10 lines displays on the third virtual console after the base system install breaks? -- see shy jo
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