On Monday 10 April 2006 02:03, Jack Carroll wrote: > I speculated that the reason for the error might be that the daily > builds did not include a boot.img floppy, and the root.img and > net-drivers.img that were provided might not be compatible with the > Etch RC2 boot.img. Until that question can be answered, or there is a > daily build that includes all the required floppy images, it doesn't > seem useful to continue testing with floppies. No, the boot Beta 2 boot floppy should be usable with daily images. After all, that's all it does: boot the installer. I don't see how it could result in the installer deleting files near the end of the install. If it would have an effect, you would see it much earlier in the process. As I've said before, this is an extremely strange "bug" (quotes because I doubt it is a bug) which you'll probably have to trace yourself as I doubt anyone else will be able to reproduce it. To reproduce it, your best chance is to add a 'set -x' to /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-installer before it is run and study what the script is doing. The trace from the script will appear in /var/log/syslog. For Geert: access floppies are a totally different set of floppies from the regular ones (allow use of braille terminals for blind people).
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