Bug#429062: installation failed report

["Manfred" <ManfredEP@web.de>]

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: etch netinstaller CD
Image version: two different "oficial" 4.0 distributions (serval times)
Date: 15th jun 2007

Machine: Asus A7V-VM (hp Board) Phoenix BIOS 3.11 11/05/01
IBM-DTTA-350846- (PM)
ATAPI CDROM 52X- (SM)
CR-4802TE- (SS)
Sound on board grafik (32MB) on board
Processor: AMD Athlon 1666Mhz/266MHz
Memory: Bank0 128MB SDRAM/133Mhz;  Bank0 128MB SDRAM/133Mhz = 266MB
Partitions: 8GByte and 0,5Gbyte (done by installer, preset option)

Output of lspci -nn and lspci -vnn: ???

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:                 [O]
Detect network card:  [O]
Configure network:     [O]
Detect CD:                 [O]
Load installer modules:[O]
Detect hard drives:      [O]
Partition hard drives:   [O]
Install base system:     [E]
Clock/timezone setup: [ ]
User/password setup: [ ]
Install tasks:                [ ]
Install boot loader:      [ ]
Overall install:             [ ]

Comments/Problems: install of base system give back: debootstrap returns 
error 1, installation failed;
using ALT+F2:
debootstrap: tar:
debootstrap: invalid tar magic
debootstrap:
base-installer: error: exiting on error base-installer/debootstrap-failed

My english is not god (i know) but in some englisch postings i find 
something simular to my problem: it was about ubunty and was something with 
the partions?!?
I'm a real beginner, i yust want to make some experiance with linux, looks 
like i do ;-)


very best regards

Manfred