Bug#286149: cross-install fails from Fedora Core 3
Subject: cross-install fails from Fedora Core 3
Package: install
Severity: normal
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Following the directions
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade
for a cross-install from a running Fedora Core 3 system in order to
create a Debian woody [stable] system on another partition, did not work for me.
I had a spare 6GB partition hda7 for ext3 root, was using a 1GB swap
partition under Fedora Core, and hda1 was a 150MB ext3 /boot.
Things worked until section 3.7.5.1 Mount Partitions. I was chroot'ed
into /mnt/debinst on /dev/hda7, and had the new /etc/fstab setup correctly.
But "mount -a" and trying individual mounts for hda1 and hda7 failed
with messages that the filesystems were already mounted or busy.
Those filesystem were already mounted under Fedora Core (before the
chroot).
I ignored the problem with mount, and kept going until Section
3.7.5.4 Configure Timezone, Users, and APT. Running
/usr/sbin/base-config, I saw
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# /usr/sbin/base-config
Terminated
# apt-cache search kernel-image
Segmentation fault
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and at this point I decided to give up. Later, I succeeded installing
sarge using Network CD-ROM bootstrap.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com
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