Bug#373699: debian-installer: installation will not complete
Package: debian-installer
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I tried to install Etch using last cd from 12.06.2006
Note thah I do not have access to online mirror on that PC and use "expert" mode
Installation silently fails after step "Choose and install software" - it will
just go to the next step in menu (AFAIR it is "check cd-rom integrity")
After manually trying following steps in installation menu "Abort installation"
comes at last. After rebooting I have bootable system but is is completely weird-
for example, users that I have created have gone (no entry's in /etc/passwd),
/etc/shadow is non-existent so only root with empty password is allowed and so on
I tried this several times (at first I thought that was because of failing
installation of console-cyrillic because of not available mirror) and even
with all default values (excluding disk partiotioning) instalation just silently
fails at the end, leaving installed system weird
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